719. Q&AF: Navigating No Man's Land, Getting Prepared For The Real World & Networking Without Alcohol
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In this episode of the show, we have Q and Af join us to talk about personal development, how to win, and how to become a better human being. We talk about the 75 Hard Program and how it has transformed his life in all facets mentally and physically.
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what is up guys it's andy for selling this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today we
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have q and af we always start the week off with a little personal development how to win how to
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kick ass how to be better human beings and this week is no different so uh if you want your questions
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answered on the show you could do so a couple different ways you can email your questions in
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to ask andy andy for selling.com or you go on youtube in the comment section on the q and af
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episode ask your questions in there throughout the week we're going to have shows within the show
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tomorrow you're going to hear cti that stands for cruise the internet this is where we put
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topics on the screen we talk about what's going on in the world we speculate on what's true and
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what's not true and then we talk about how we the people have to solve these problems going on in
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society other times we're going to have real talk real talk is just five to 20 minutes of me giving
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you some real talk that's just some shit that i think you need to hear and then we have 75 hard
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verses occasionally all right 75 hard verses is where people have completed the 75 hard program
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come on they talk about how their life was in disarray before and how they used it to take back
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control of their life and become a much better person if you're unfamiliar with the 75 hard program
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you can go to episode 208 and get it for free live hard and the 75 hard program are the world's
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most popular in history mental transformation programs and they are free audio feed only not
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on youtube uh there is a book available on my website andy for seller.com that you can get
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it's called the book on mental toughness we just got some back in stock it's usually out of stock
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so if you want that book uh you can go get it you don't need to get it it has the entire live
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hard program plus 10 chapters of mental toughness plus some case studies on some very famous people
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that have used mental toughness to become the very famous people that you know but you can get the
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whole program for free on my podcast audio only episode 208 uh we don't do ads on the show all right
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that's something that we don't do here and in exchange for that we have what we call the fee
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the fee is very simple it means share the show uh the reason i don't do ads is because i don't want
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you guys's help so uh when we say pay the fee that's what it means so don't be a hoe
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show the show all right hey what's up dude what's going on with you man nothing i saw uh
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i've been seeing some purple cans around here yeah i told you dude my nigga i told you i told you
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i got you i haven't even tried i haven't tried the official one yet i told you listen you got me bro
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i handled that one myself i appreciate that bro no one that are in here is more qualified to handle
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great flavor than me i would agree with that besides maybe you besides me but yeah like
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outside of me i don't count yeah yeah i worked real hard on that and sort of the team yeah man
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people just for you i put a man listen bro hey you a real one bro that's right now you got to go make
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the cream soda for me that's what we're working on this week i'll make some cream soda for you yeah
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that sounded a little bit weird i i don't know if i want that kind of cream soda bro
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i meant the energy drink not the weird shit you do on the weekends
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might make you sleepy yeah let's make it more uh weird
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no man all is good man it's uh we got a good weekend looking forward to
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yeah it should be some good time today tomorrow man and uh by this time monday man uh
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we'll be running full steam this is monday don't don't start that shit andy don't you
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no man but uh look man i got i got three good ones for you all right let's get after
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let's get better this week let's make some people better guys andy question number one
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uh hi andy and team my name is anthony i'm 29 years old and i've transformed my life because
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of 75 heart in all facets mentally and physically i'm a public servant firefighter in a large city
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in arizona and i find myself getting let down by people in regular relationships on a day-to-day
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basis uh and in building new ones i get to a point where i understand uh that they're not about being
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real as fuck my question is how do you navigate having high expectations for people uh and always
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getting let down but keeping a positive mindset for future relationships thanks for the help
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every single show i'm not a hoe i appreciate all well hey man uh i think that's a great question
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you know here's the thing we have to understand when we go out and we try to get better and we try
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to improve and we raise our personal standards we are elevating ourselves into a place where there are
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just less people available that share that standard all right higher standards equal fewer people to
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connect with so what you're experiencing is you've raised your standards you've decided to be a better
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person you've decided that you were going to pursue excellence you've decided that you're going to get
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the most out of your potential and now because you've decided that and you've committed to it
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you're looking around at everybody else and you're noticing that they don't do that and when you
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were one of them you didn't notice it because that's just what we did so now that you've committed
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to being better it stands out and it becomes very obvious all right so that's a challenge because
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most people are going to continue to live the way that you always live before you became who it is
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that you are now and that can be very frustrating because we spend time alone but here's the thing
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people often say things like oh it's lonely at the top or i can't find anybody to relate to
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that's not the truth the truth of the matter is is that you're in between phases okay when you
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started out on 75 hard and you said man i want to get more out of my life i want to improve i want to
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get better everybody else around you was doing the same things that you've been doing and now that
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you've elevated you have moved on past that group and you have started to progress down the path
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and you just haven't connected with the next group of people that are going to share your mindset share
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your drive and goals for yourself you haven't gotten that network of friends built so you're in what we
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call no man's land all right no man's land is when people start to become successful they start to get
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better and they find themselves alone because all of their old friends are now
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kind of out of their life and they haven't developed new friends yet and this is where
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people come with that saying oh well it's lonely at the top no dude you're not at the top you just got
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fucking started all right you're just in between phases and you need to settle into this new
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lifestyle give it some time start to you know rekindle these relationships and build friendships
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with people who are like-minded and once you start to do that you're going to find that that
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old group of friends was holding you back and you're going to realize they were holding you back
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a lot more than you realized at the time and you're also going to figure out that this new group of
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friends is much more rewarding and fulfilling to be friends with because they share the same viewpoints
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that you have the same desire you have the same drive you have the ambitions the goals the dreams
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they are connected to you in that same way so you move away from people who are saying stuff like
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oh man don't forget where you came from oh dude what do you think you're better than everybody
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oh you're getting a little too big for your britches there and all these people that try to you know
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pull you back into their circle and you move into a group of people where they're like bro this is
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awesome that you're doing that you know what let's get together and work on this you know what let's go
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outside and get a workout in together you know what let's do this that's going to improve both of us
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let's collab let's build this let's do this and now you're in a whole new group of network that
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actually pushes you forward which makes progressing that much easier and if you choose to continue to
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progress beyond that point you will continue into another phase of no man's land because there will
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be people in the second group who decide this is good enough for me this is where I want to be
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and that's okay but the longer you go the more times you go through this process of sort of
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washing away the old and replacing with the new and that's a good thing because we're not supposed
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to just stay stagnant our whole lives just because you were born around certain people doesn't mean
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you have to stay around certain people just because you had friends in high school or friends in college
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doesn't mean that you need to be doing the same shit that you were doing in high school or college or
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else you're not real anymore you're you you've forgotten us are you too good for us that's bullshit
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that's what losers fucking say to make you feel shitty and do you really want that in your life no it's
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annoying all right and every time you scale up and every time you push forward you're going to find
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yourself connecting with more and more people that not only encourage your success but also
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contribute to it so you're just going through the normal process dude this is part of it and uh you're in
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between friend groups and what I would encourage you to do is to stay on the path keep pushing keep getting
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better and the right people will find you the right people will start to realize that you're this kind of
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person and you will start to connect with these people one by one by one and soon after some time you'll have
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a whole new network of friends but there is no quick fix to this there is no uh you know group or
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whatever that you can join that'll just automatically get people uh to replace your old friends you know
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like this is a process and it takes time now you know you could go on the internet and you could you know
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search 75 hard hashtags and you could start to connect and follow and kind of build your relationship with
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other people who are driven along the same goals you know you could go to certain events like the one
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we just had this weekend summer smash where everybody's here aligned they're trying to get
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better you could join communities that are you know there's a lot of run clubs there's all these things
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around where people are getting together to improve and it's becoming more and more common so that you
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can accelerate the process by doing things like that but um ultimately dude here's the deal
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throughout your life you're going to continue to push and not everybody is and that's going to be
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weird because you're going to wonder why they're not pushing too and it's going to be fucking annoying
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all right but at the end of the day you can't sacrifice your potential and what you're supposed
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to become because of the inaction uh or unwillingness of other people and you just have to keep going
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yeah i love that man a couple of things on that you know you mentioned like i feel like you know it's
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almost like a it's a bad expectation to think that you know this new group of people is just going to
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magically find you yeah there is some work on your part that you have to do yeah to cultivate those
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relations for sure i think that's super awesome one thing you always also say to do is you know
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high tides raises all ships that's right now with that being said like you can like yeah i'm sure
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you know you might get one of your friends that move up with you that's right but i feel like a lot of
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people will have a knee-jerk reaction where you know they put themselves at this higher standard
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they made it up here they know it feels great but then because it's so much pressure from those
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people they tend to all right well maybe this standard i can drop this one just a little bit
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it's like a knee-jerk reaction almost right like i'll just lower this one i maybe just once a week
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yes being along people will cause you to compromise yeah and dude you can't compromise because once you
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start to compromise you start to compromise everything so there can be no compromise in your
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standards and if you compromise it when's the next time you're going to compromise the next
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standard and the next standard it creates a snowball of compromise to where eventually you find
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yourself back where you were all right and yeah for sure and usually it does get worse because once
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the once the slippery slope starts it's hard to stop it um but you know this concept is the same
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in relationships like romantic relationships partner relationships you know it's not just
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friendships like a lot of people you like a lot of you guys are out there looking for a
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significant other or you're trying to meet people but you're not considering like what you bring to
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the table like you you think you're going to go out there and you're going to meet you know some
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person who's got all their shit together but you don't have your shit together and what you have to
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realize and what i hope you do is that you won't settle until you're in a really good place because when
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you get to a really good place you're going to attract people who are also on that level which means
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your uh your ability to to get the ideal partner is going to be much greater at that point in time
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so you know we have to consider that too dude like look yeah you got to live your life yeah you got to
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have fun yeah you got to have friends yeah you got to date all these things but you should realize
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that you're never going to get the best of those things until you're the best product yourself
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and that's going to take you taking six months taking a year and becoming exactly who the fuck
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you're supposed to be and you can accelerate the results of your life in a tremendous fashion by
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just saying hey you know what i'm not dating i'm not fucking around i'm not going to do this i am going
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to put the next year 100 on me i'm going to become the best version of myself and then at the end of
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that year i'm going to evaluate and i'm going to tell you this dude if you take that mentality
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all your friends are going to be better the people that want to be friends with you are going to be
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better you're going to make more money you're going to have a better life the people who want
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to fuck you are going to be a lot better options okay so i'd have no other way to say that but that's
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the reality like yeah become the best you get the best you're not entitled to anything so yeah i love
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it man i love it guys andy question number two uh hey andy i'm 18 years old just graduated high
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school uh not going to college but i want to go into business and build something looking at your
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life and seeing that you were in my shoes i know it's possible um you always talk about reality and
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how the real world works and i feel like i'm unprepared my question is what was going through your
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mind uh when you were about to leave the nest how did you work through that were your parents
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supportive i mean you were 19 in the city uh with just you and your best friend just going
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i need some help and insight well you know i was fortunate that i grew up with parents that sort of
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let me do what i needed to do they weren't too overbearing you know they let me go out and make
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mistakes without like you know putting too many rules and restrictions on me and you know i was sort
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of allowed to do whatever i wanted as long as i didn't get in trouble and um i think that helped me
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because that way when i was away from home i didn't go crazy i already kind of understood how
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to handle myself uh so there wasn't any awkwardness there you know when i said hey i'm moving to
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springfield and i'm going to start a business i mean it wasn't like anybody said no you know so i just
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did it um and i don't come from a traditional family i wouldn't you know like i didn't grow up with
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the white picket fence and we sat down for dinner every day it was it was you know it was different
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and um so i i don't know that wasn't really a factor for me now was i nervous to go out and try
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to do something did i feel unqualified did i question myself did i doubt myself did i think
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you know fuck am i going to be one of the people who are chosen for success absolutely i you always
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wonder that in the beginning do i have what it takes yep dude that's that's normal all right but
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you have to fundamentally if i could like i wish i could like reach into to you guys who are young
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into your brain and make you realize just this one point and it's this i used to think like you think
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i used to think there was magic to it or there was luck or you had to be in a special circumstance
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or you had to know this person or you had to be like invited into the club i used to think like
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all these things that you guys think like you know am i going to be one of these people that is
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chosen quote unquote for success and if you've been following me for a while you've heard me talk about
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the quote unquote success fairy and how i used to think about it was like there's like people and you
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have a group of people that are like you know there's 10 of us in the room and one of us gets
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chosen to be successful by some force that we don't understand and i call that force the success
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fairy and what you have to understand guys is none of that shit is real none of that shit is true
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there is no success fairy there is no special fucking secret club with secret handshakes and there is no
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you know you got to know this person or that person you will meet those people as you go out and build
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things that will accelerate your career but nobody meets those people on day one um you know you're
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gonna have doubt you're gonna have frustration you're gonna have anger you're gonna have mistakes
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but those things are necessary for you to gain the skills all right so when you really look at what it
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takes to build something like from my perspective i can very confidently say it is very simple it's inputs
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equal outputs it is what i do and what that creates and if you show up every day and you're effective
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every single day and you continue that for as long as you can and keep the ratio of wins much higher
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than you do losses meaning like you win let's say 95 of the days or even 90 of the days bro there's no
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denying that you'll get where you want to go it just depends on how long it's going to take
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some of you guys come from total shit like for real and i'm most of you guys will say you come
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from shit but really you come from a middle class upbringing you're doing all right right there's
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people who come from fucking literally nothing no parents fucking adopted no money dirt poor wearing
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the same clothes every day who have built literally billion dollar businesses okay if those motherfuckers can
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do it i'm 100 sure that you can do it so but it might take that person longer because they didn't
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grow up with you know parents that taught them about business or parents that you know taught them basic
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things in life so yeah we all started a different place and that means that it might take you longer
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but that doesn't mean it's impossible and that's what you have to understand if you were born in a
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shitty spot and that's the card you got dealt guess what the reality is you got to do more work
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that's what it fucking comes down to and you can bitch about it you could cry about it you complain
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about it you can write fucking blogs about it you can make videos crying in your car about it it ain't
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fucking fair there's no it's not fair but if you just accept the way that it is and you say all right
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look i was born with fucking bullshit circumstances i better get to work because it's going to take me five
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years longer it's going to take the guy who grew up in upper middle class america you know what i'm
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saying so we just have to accept that and we have to understand that it's still possible it doesn't
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mean it's impossible and there's no magic to it all it is is you try something it fails why did it fail
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learn a lesson you try something again it works then you try the next thing it fails why did it fail
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you learn a lesson then you try it again and it works that's the process that's repeated
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thousands hundreds of thousands of times over the years that makes you a skilled operator and that
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brings you success fulfillment and the life that you desire and anybody can achieve it so that's that's
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the that's the way the game works brother man i want to ask you this man because you do know a lot
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of successful people right like you know these people you you can touch them you feel them right
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have you noticed that is there any like correlation between you know having you know the the late
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start behind the starting line right the unfair initial circumstance have you have you seen the
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correlation between that and the people who are super successful bro i actually think it's a huge
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advantage that's what i'm saying like are they more successful yes yes yes it is a huge advantage to
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come from fucking nothing here is why because you had the biggest motherfucking chip on your shoulder
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that you could possibly have you got fucked in every way everybody tells you your shit nobody thinks
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you're going to succeed everybody laughs at your shit and if you're smart you could absorb that energy
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and use it to move forward and dude every single successful person at a massive level has this crazy
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story of how the fuck they did it and where they came from and it's not because they just get there
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and start making up stories bro it's because those people have something to prove they have a mission
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they have an enemy and those are three things that you have to have to be successful so if you're one of
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these people and you're moping around but i'm not coming from nothing you're blinding yourself to the
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reality that it's actually one of the biggest advantages for the massive amounts of success that you could
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create do you think that middle class weak ass pussy motherfucker is going to do the shit that you're willing
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to do he doesn't even know what hardship is those people are easy as fuck to beat if you come from that
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place so like dude don't cry about it use it to your advantage and i guarantee you you'll be much more
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successful than the soft motherfuckers that come from the rich family that their mom and dad paid for
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everything for them that's real shit yeah i know it's real bro it's funny too man because you know it what you
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said there's like you know it seems it just seems so wild and unreal when you can look at somebody's
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life and see where they are right but then they take you to a little gravel road and you're like
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bro this how the like how does this make sense you know but but it makes the first thing i did
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when i fucking met you that's what we did bro i showed you my place and you showed me your place
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bro you know you know why i did that to show you where you came because i didn't want you to think i
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was some rich fucking motherfucker didn't know shit yeah first day i worked with dj i said get in the
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fucking truck and i took him to where we fucking grew up and i said this is where we come from
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yeah the reason for that is i didn't want you to fucking think that i just shit this shit out of
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my ass bro this i fucking i have paid in blood for the life that i have and that's how i know it's
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possible for all these motherfuckers out there you should be willing to do it yeah yeah i love it man
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i fucking love it uh guys andy let's get to our third and final question uh question number three
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andy my name is tanner uh and i'm an entrepreneur at a global company my job deals with a lot of
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networking and building relationships and because of this alcohol is typically involved and i have
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realized that drinking alcohol hinders my ability to be great um i'm not saying that people who drink
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are wrong i have just realized that it's not good for me and the life that i am trying to build
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how can i still network in my job while not doing uh what the people i am trying to build
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relationships in the workplace are doing i don't want to seem rude or virtuous uh but any advice would
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be great now you like you have you're a great person to ask because you haven't really drank
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alcohol since what 20 was it 2017 2018 2018 right and i'm sure you get all i mean i do it's like twice
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two three times a year right it was just like before that i drank thursday friday saturday sunday
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every week for my for 10 years 20 years okay so how do we handle this be who you are bro
00:25:04.320
authenticity wins when people sit down at dinner and everybody's drinking and you just say i don't know
00:25:11.960
i'm good i drink this and just stand on that without making any excuses or apologizing that actually
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builds credit and respect with other people that shows that you have self-control that shows that
00:25:23.820
you care about what you're doing so i would recommend just being who you are all right there's something
00:25:30.400
very powerful about someone sitting down and saying now i'm just going to get a tonic water or i'm going
00:25:37.280
to get a this or i'm going to get a that a diet coke or whatever right and people saying what you don't
00:25:42.580
drink no i drink i'm just not drinking now they're that that shows people that you're in control that
00:25:48.540
shows people that you take your shit serious and in fact i have when that happens to me and we're and
00:25:54.260
we're in a social situation and someone sits down and just says everybody's drinking and says i don't
00:25:59.840
i'm not drinking that shows that that person is not breakable by peer pressure so it actually
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fucking says a whole lot about you without saying anything so i wouldn't try to compromise that i
00:26:09.980
wouldn't try to explain it the key is to not explain it that's my next question yeah do you
00:26:15.100
owe them a no nation fuck no you don't owe anybody an explanation like you're a grown fucking man i do
00:26:21.740
what the fuck i want that's the attitude that you need to have people will respect that it's authentic
00:26:27.080
it's real and if you could sit down and do that it's like look dude if i was at dinner with all of
00:26:33.120
you guys and we were all drinking and the new guy showed up and he was like you know yeah i don't
00:26:40.700
i'm not drinking what you don't what you got a problem with it no what are you alcoholic
00:26:46.280
no man i sometimes i do but i'm not right now because i'm doing this and this
00:26:51.720
you know all right cool i'm gonna look at that dude i'm gonna be like he's driving no i'm gonna be
00:26:56.520
like that guy can fucking make decisions that will not be affected by the pressure of everybody else
00:27:01.380
i'm gonna look at it like that guy's in control of his life i'm gonna look at it like that guy
00:27:05.940
possesses a certain amount of discipline that most people don't possess and i am gonna look at the
00:27:10.980
other guys and be like man i wonder if these other guys got that okay so there's a lot of credit that
00:27:16.380
you could build by just owning who the fuck you are and not apologizing for it and you certainly don't
00:27:22.680
need to apologize to anybody for not fucking putting alcohol on your body like that that's not an
00:27:27.940
explanation that you need to have now if you have a problem like if you feel awkward about it or
00:27:33.460
whatever you're not ready to make that stance i would just ask you to recognize that the right
00:27:39.460
people will respect that if they don't respect it and they make funny and they make they peer pressure
00:27:44.240
you and this and that bro that probably not a good group of people to be around yeah that's that was my
00:27:49.180
next question for you because uh i mean this is such a great topic but um you know like and i don't want
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to foreshadow any like you know like bad things in this guy's life tanner i hope you're doing great
00:28:00.800
hope you love where you work but do you think that i mean is it a possibility is it something to be
00:28:05.260
like like genuinely cautious about that could become a reality because i know for me like i don't drink
00:28:10.200
how i used to drink right yeah and like i'll be honest like drunk people kind of annoy me yeah
00:28:14.900
right and so it's like do you think it's something he should be aware of that there may come a time where
00:28:20.620
you just may not want to be doing that line of work bro because it can get it can get annoying
00:28:26.100
yeah you know what i'm saying like it may not just be good for the environment for you is that a
00:28:29.840
possibility yeah for sure uh you know look man i can't say yes or no to that it just depends on the
00:28:37.620
person it does depend on what profession you're in there are professions like you know honestly a lot
00:28:44.440
of them where alcohol is a major factor it's culture bro and you're yes but the problem with
00:28:50.040
that is is that most of these motherfuckers can't build culture without it right they can't operate
00:28:55.000
without it what kind of dude would you think of someone if they were able to have a great time and
00:28:59.720
you know for a fact they didn't have one fucking drink that makes you like triple cool right so like
00:29:05.120
you know people drink it's a part of business it's a part of networking i understand that
00:29:12.640
but i think if you handle it right i i know if you handle it right people actually respect you
00:29:17.000
and and what will end up happening is like some of the other guys will come up and be like you know
00:29:21.180
how do you do that what do you do you know what do you tell me about your training because dude they
00:29:25.980
don't want to be fat fucking drunks either bro they just are because they don't they lack the ability
00:29:31.900
to say no because of the social pressures involved right and that's something that works you know once you
00:29:39.040
do live hard once you do 75 hard it honestly becomes real easy to just tell people to eat shit
00:29:44.920
you know what i'm saying like because dude you realize that other people just are not living at
00:29:50.060
a higher standard that goes back to the the first question we had you know um yeah and to your point
00:29:57.740
dj it's really hard for me to be around people that don't hold a high standard you know what i'm saying
00:30:02.600
like drunk drunk motherfucker we're saying drunk people we're not saying like just a couple of drinks
00:30:07.120
it's not even drunk people bro i don't mind if like one of my friends gets drunk like i'm like
00:30:13.320
all right that's cool like fucking i party hard too i get it you know but what i do mind is when
00:30:19.360
someone's fat as fuck they're fucking got that red drunk face they're clearly a piece of shit and
00:30:26.000
they're always fucking drunk and they're always talking bro i punch those motherfuckers in the face
00:30:30.680
i can't fucking stand obnoxiousness i cannot fucking stand them i'm like dude listen to this
00:30:36.160
guy listen to this guy talk shit about how good his life thinks it is he's fat he's fucking shit's
00:30:43.280
hanging over his belt he's drinking 500 beers he's not making any money and he's talking shit about
00:30:49.060
all this stuff like dude like that's just a bullshit human being real talk so that's real man let me let
00:30:56.820
me follow up on one more thing too here because and i'm not saying that this is this guy's situation
00:31:00.860
but you know he's like i don't want to seem rude or virtuous how how rude huh it's rude to yourself
00:31:06.740
to not be true to yourself 100 you know what's rude violating your own integrity because of the
00:31:12.380
pressure that other people put on you that's fucking rude you know what's rude is giving up on your own
00:31:17.880
hopes and dreams because some fucking losers say you should okay that's rude it you have to be self
00:31:24.280
you have to be self focused you have to be selfish almost about your dreams and hopes because
00:31:31.020
everybody else will try to erode them because they don't have those you see what i'm saying
00:31:35.200
100 man i was just saying that to say like i mean how much like self-talk's a real thing man like and
00:31:41.600
how many like do you think this is a thing too where he's just like these conversations and this
00:31:45.720
negative i guess uh reaction to this stuff like it's all in his mind kind of like i mean is it really
00:31:51.480
a reality that people are that like just complete dicks like that or are these conversations he's
00:31:56.200
making up in his head no i think it's him not being comfortable in that situation yet you know
00:32:01.540
what i'm saying yeah yeah okay so just be mindful of that i love dude i'll you know real talk dude
00:32:06.860
like just look at the motherfuckers that pressure you to drink do you want their life do you want what
00:32:14.320
they got really like because i don't i look at people like that real talk like you know how i
00:32:20.040
look at them i do like i walk away i'm like look at this fucking loser look at this fucking douche
00:32:24.980
yeah you know what i'm saying yeah i don't i don't care how much fucking money you got you you can't
00:32:30.080
control yourself you you're not in control of your own life yeah and then whatever you got you're
00:32:34.140
definitely missing something on the table bro and i just look at them and i'm like dude honestly
00:32:37.760
like this is gonna sound so fucking wrong i don't care i just look at them and i'm like that guy's a
00:32:42.140
pussy and i'm not that guy's weak and i'm not that guy's less than me he is and that's that's
00:32:47.460
reality because he is you know it's it's not that's not arrogance to say somebody with more
00:32:53.180
self-control more discipline more mental toughness is a higher quality human being than somebody
00:32:56.880
without it that's just reality dude this is you know people love to say this shit well you think
00:33:02.820
you're better than everybody yeah that fucking scorecard says so i fucking handle my shit i fucking
00:33:10.320
have discipline and this goes for you guys too if you have it i got my shit together i'm working
00:33:14.920
hard i'm doing the right things i'm living a virtuous life i'm doing the best that i can you aren't even
00:33:19.880
trying yes that makes me better than you i'm sorry that you don't get to be the best when you live like
00:33:25.800
shit and i put in all this work to be who the fuck i am that's like you oh oh so you believe in
00:33:31.480
participation trophies right right basically yeah right like it's an absurd conversation and people love to
00:33:37.180
throw that shit out there and it's never rich people or fucking people that have high levels of
00:33:41.420
success that say that shit they're never out there saying oh that guy that guy that has a little like
00:33:46.180
you never hear a wealthy person or someone who's got all their shit together say oh that guy that's
00:33:51.660
got more than me he thinks he's better than me that's not the fuck they think only fucking losers say
00:33:56.760
that shit and it's to validate themselves for not even trying dude most people legitimately wait their
00:34:02.980
entire week to go out and drink beer like for real like overpriced beer yeah by thursday by thursday
00:34:10.400
they're going to fucking happy hour it's friday night they're partying ball saturday some sort of
00:34:17.160
day drinking and then fucking night drinking sunday i know because i live this i did this for years
00:34:23.000
okay my life sucked i wasn't happy i wasn't fulfilled i was making far less money i could have made
00:34:28.640
i wasn't good in terms of friendships or relationships like
00:34:33.760
and that's reality dude it's like there's guys that were better than me and not even where i'm at
00:34:40.820
now there's still dudes better than me now and we have to be able to admit that that guy's got his
00:34:45.440
shit together more than me that that should that shouldn't be some whiny shit like oh that guy thinks
00:34:52.060
he's better than me it should be like damn dude i need to get better the guy's better than me yeah
00:34:56.680
i gotta get up there yeah that's how winners think winners look at people that are further
00:35:00.540
down the road from them and say fuck all right i got work to do and they get to work they don't
00:35:05.640
hate the motherfucker because he's doing better they're like fuck that's inspiring yeah 100 man i love
00:35:10.420
it well guys andy we'll do one more what's the special sauce yeah yeah all right special sauce try
00:35:16.180
give him a full the full 45 girth the full 4.5 in your case yeah um
00:35:23.480
that's two trophies i'm giving him a dot god damn he didn't even say that then you don't have to
00:35:31.460
you did all right uh guys andy question before a little special sauce uh what's good andy i just
00:35:37.380
wanted to start by saying thank you for changing my life i've been following since mfceo and i've
00:35:42.540
really bossed the fuck up since listening to you um i was homeless without a job straight up lost
00:35:48.020
by listening to your podcast completing the 75 hard program um i am now a six-figure professional
00:35:53.500
tattoo artist that works at one of the most famous studios in the country my life has completely
00:35:58.960
changed i owe you bro um now as i mentioned earlier i am not working at a famous tattoo studio with some
00:36:05.000
real heavy hitters i've been here for five months now and to be honest things could not be going any
00:36:11.120
better i am growing in the company tattoos are getting better and building great rapport with
00:36:16.700
the owners of the company i can't help but notice that the attention that i am receiving from ownership
00:36:22.820
on top of maybe my personality is starting to step on some toes of people that i work with
00:36:29.120
especially people who have a much longer tenure than i do at the studio i've heard the saying to
00:36:35.360
never outshine the master i have only been tattooing professionally for about three years so the last
00:36:40.720
thing i want to do is seem arrogant or cocky uh coming from an athletic background i have a team
00:36:45.620
first mindset but as i'm noticing these co-workers talking shit i'm starting to wonder if i should
00:36:51.460
even give a fuck um i put in the work and ask the questions whenever i get the opportunity i want to be
00:36:56.380
a team player but at the same time i don't want to let someone else's insecurity stop me from being
00:37:01.280
the best version of myself should i try to accommodate these workers to keep a friendly peaceful work
00:37:06.220
environment or should i just say fuck them we ball and keep moving regardless of how people uh feel
00:37:11.980
about it all right first of all never let anyone fucking anyone slow you the fuck down bro if people
00:37:18.420
stand in your way you run them the fuck over okay you don't wait for them to catch up you fucking make
00:37:24.100
them catch up all right this question is such an important question because so many people struggle
00:37:31.160
with this they start to get good and then their friends that they made in the workplace start to
00:37:35.940
like notice and then they start to like tone it back down it's no different than what we talked about
00:37:40.660
with low no man's land all right so what you need to realize and how how to handle this would be very
00:37:46.380
very very simple one continue to work your ass off and get better do everything better than everybody
00:37:53.520
else let your work speak for itself to the point where it embarrasses their work all right
00:37:59.400
when they have a problem with it or they talk shit smile be cool just laugh it off and keep moving
00:38:07.800
all right treat them with respect if they're disrespectful to you treat them with respect and
00:38:13.080
what's going to happen is your life is going to speak for itself and their life is going to speak for
00:38:18.120
itself and by you treating them well even if they're being douchebags you're showing the ownership that like
00:38:24.560
it's them not you okay so when you have a situation where you have a bunch of employees and then you
00:38:31.860
have an ownership group then you have you who's new one of the things that can happen is because all
00:38:37.760
these people have tenured relationships with the owners they can fucking go to the owner and be like
00:38:42.020
this guy's a problem this guy's a cancer this guy's a you don't see what he does when you're not
00:38:48.700
around you don't see how he treats people and usually when people come to you the owners with
00:38:53.860
that it's usually because they're high performing people and those people are threatened and they're
00:38:58.100
trying to hold them back and your ownership will fucking recognize that as long as you continue to
00:39:03.220
do great work if you continue to put in the work you continue to be humble about it open to getting
00:39:08.140
better that's what i mean i don't mean humble like oh i'm no good i mean humble like hey what can i
00:39:12.940
learn from this guy how can i get better how can i improve how can you make it known that you're
00:39:17.320
looking to improve all right that's what matters and that's what's going to matter to the ownership
00:39:21.760
and then when those guys go to the ownership and they start chirping about you know oh then the
00:39:28.880
ownership is going to look at those guys and be like the fuck's wrong with you and they're going
00:39:32.220
to start telling on themselves so but that will not happen if you treat them like shit back because
00:39:38.460
remember they have a tenured relationship so if you were if those people were getting rude and you're
00:39:44.020
like hey fuck you motherfucker i'm better than you blah blah blah blah blah and start doing that
00:39:47.920
the owner is likely to look at you as the cancer because you're the newest element to the team
00:39:52.440
so it's very important do better keep on the gas stay humble enough to keep improving work harder than
00:40:01.060
everybody else produce better than everybody else and then when they fucking have an opinion about it or
00:40:06.340
you hear them talking keep a positive attitude treat them with respect and you do you the way that you
00:40:12.460
know you're going to do you keep your integrity strong and they will weed themselves out or they
00:40:17.960
will eventually join you and they will say you know what this guy's actually a really good dude i'm
00:40:22.140
going to try to work get on his team so you'll either pull them with you or they will separate
00:40:27.700
themselves because they will show themselves to be cancers so this idea of you know never outshine
00:40:33.400
the master that is that a relevant those guys are not the master those are peers those are peers
00:40:38.880
those are your co-workers those are peers and by the way there is a way to outshine the master in
00:40:44.360
fact if you have the right kind of master they want you to fucking outshine them because they want
00:40:49.460
great people on the team but the problem is is that most of the time when people try to outshine
00:40:54.340
the master they fucking have an ego about it if you have a if you have someone in your organization
00:40:59.280
that's better than you at something as an owner i am glad about that i want that because i want the
00:41:04.580
team to fucking win like if we're on a football team and i'm not as fast as the guy that's out
00:41:09.840
there running a 4 240 on the on the wide receiver you think i just don't want him on the team because
00:41:14.520
he's faster than me no i want to fucking i want him on the team because he's going to win in that
00:41:18.660
position so there's a way to do that there's a way to be better than the guys who even own the
00:41:25.920
company but also recognize that you're better in this area you're not better than and you're just part
00:41:32.500
of the team over here and you know that's the way to do that is to always stay humble um to accept
00:41:39.340
responsibility and give away credit that's a massive thing for peer leadership and leadership
00:41:44.840
like if you're a leader it's not your job to get the credit everybody thinks that as a leader it's
00:41:50.280
their job to get the flowers and the credit and the celebration and the claps that's not your job
00:41:55.240
your job is to take that credit and push it to the team and say hey this is a team effort dude i was
00:42:00.820
walking through hq today and and a guy was like you know you're changing so many lives and i'm like
00:42:06.260
no we are changing so many lives you see what i'm saying and then when things go bad it's not oh my
00:42:13.640
team fucking sucks it's man you know what i fucked up because i didn't show you guys how to do this the
00:42:18.400
right way you see what i'm saying so dude accept responsibility give the credit even as a peer leader
00:42:25.040
and you'll earn the respect of your team and the ownership i love it bro i love it man well that was
00:42:29.960
four yeah what all right guys let's go have a great week i'll see you guys tomorrow
00:42:39.740
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