Autocorrect Your Negativity, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO31
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Summary
Andy and Vaughn discuss the St. Louis Blues and their chances at winning the Stanley Cup this season. They also talk about a viral tweet about the Blues and what it means to be a Blues fan and why they are the best team in the NHL.
Transcript
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Hey guys, what's up? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I am Andy and I am the motherfucking
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CEO. Here we are on Thursday. We're going to do a little Thursday Thunder for you. I'm
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here with my co-host Vaughn Kohler. What's up, Vaughn? Not much, man. It is way too hot
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for December. Dude, I'm with you, man. I'm not liking it. I'm ready for some coal. I
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like the season change. We've got some sales reps that are from Florida, California, and
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they're like, oh, they come here and they're like, oh, I hate this. Dude, I like the season
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change. You know what I don't like, though, is getting dark at 4.30 in the afternoon.
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I totally agree. I totally agree. I want to spend six months out of the year next year
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in a place where it doesn't do that. So if any of you people know of a place like that,
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send me an email because I might be coming to live with you. I'm not kidding either.
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You know, something dawned on me that I've never, I know you're a sports guy, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, you grew up like in, what? Like, primarily football?
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Oh, man, I play every sport. Yeah. But you know how you told a story about your dad saying,
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you got to go, you got to get the puck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, which one of you guys played
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hockey? We both did. You did? And you played ice hockey or you played like field hockey?
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Okay. So are you like a big blues fan? Yeah, for sure, dude. You can't live in St. Louis
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and not be a blues fan. Come on. Yeah, I know. I'm learning about hockey a little bit. You
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know, I grew up in Kansas. Oh, yeah. I forgot. You're not from here. Come on, dude. You go
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ask that question around here. But the funniest thing happened. I don't know if you caught it
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the other day. Tyler, are you a blues fan? Right. You are, really? I don't know. I just
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associate high. The blues are as big as the Cardinals here, man. Okay. Blues are a big deal.
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Yeah. They're not bigger than the Cardinals, though. No. Yeah, I think so. Well, this is
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supposed to be like the best team ever. This is the best chance they have to win the Stanley
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Cup, right? I mean, that's from what I understand. But anyway, do you see that thing about Roar
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Bacon? Yeah. I'm going to set the stage for those who have no idea what we're talking about.
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Right. Okay. A couple weeks ago here in St. Louis, there was a tweet that went out about
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the St. Louis hockey game. All right. And the guy who tweeted it, I think he intended to
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tweet, Blues ride Backus five goals to win the game. And just in case you're wondering,
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David Backus is the captain of the Blues. Okay. He's an awesome player. Well, his phone
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auto-corrected it to the Blues Roar Bacon. And I guess I should say it didn't technically
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auto-correct it. I guess it screwed it up. But you know how your phone does that sometimes.
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Well, anyway, funny thing is the fans totally picked up on the statement. And now it's become
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this viral rally cry, Roar Bacon in St. Louis. So I thought that was pretty cool.
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Dude, first of all, I don't know what it is about Roar Bacon, but it sounds like it'd be pretty good.
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I'm just saying, man. Like, you know, if anybody's got some Roar Bacon out there for me, send me some.
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But you know, it's funny. I thought that was hilarious too, because
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first of all, we've all seen like the auto-correct funny emails on Facebook to go around and read them.
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Those are some of the funniest fucking things I've ever read. But it got me thinking about like
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you know, how our thoughts are shaped and what we do with those thoughts. You know,
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we have so many negative thoughts and a lot of times those thoughts can just be expressed by single
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words or phrases. And how we use words is hugely important to our success because it comes from
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the perspective of how we view, how we feel emotionally, and how we ultimately act when
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it comes to terms of success. So I thought something that would be cool that we could do
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here would be like, you know, let's talk about some words that, you know, are one thing and then
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let's auto-correct them to another thing in our brain. You're talking about training your brain
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to auto-correct. Yes, because I think everybody, I think every successful person goes through that
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process. They auto-correct or they see things automatically as something else when those
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words are brought up. So what we've got is we've got a couple words here that we're going to go
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through and we're going to talk about them and that you guys, you know, you can see the perspective
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difference between what you think they might mean and what I personally think they might mean or what
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somebody who's very successful might see those words to me. So I'll throw out the word and you're
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going to auto-correct it, right? Okay. Okay. Um, word number one obstacle. I see the opportunity.
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Okay. That's, that's the word I see. Obstacles and challenges are opportunity to get better.
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They're opportunity to get improved. They're opportunity for you to move forward, to progress
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and ultimately, you know, put a couple extra George Washington's in your pocket. Okay. You know,
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so when you're, so when your mind says obstacle, you say train yourself to auto-correct it. I think
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that's, I think every successful person does. And in an entrepreneurial mindset, you know, an obstacle,
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you could substitute that word for problem. And then you want to develop a product that solves the
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problem or an idea that solves a problem or an idea that makes it more convenient. I mean, you look at
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something like Uber, you know, Uber fucking doesn't even own a cab and they're make a billion,
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they're worth billions and billions and billions of dollars, you know, just because they made something
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a tad bit more convenient for you. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's not a huge obstacle. It's a
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small obstacle. I mean, most there's cabs in most places, right? Right. They just saw it as an
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opportunity. Okay. You know, to get a little bit better. All right. Here's a word that's typed a lot
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on the soul and mind and heart of people every day. Failure. I easily lessen. Okay. There is no
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failures there. The failure happens when you stop. All right. A failure is only a failure. If you
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didn't learn anything, I've, I've quote unquote failed and bankrupted eight businesses, but I don't
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ever look at those things as failures. I look at them as things that I've learned that have allowed
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me to be successful over the course of time. And when we've talked about this so many times, um,
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and I just think that that, I think that word right there is the biggest one that people
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misunderstand that they allow that word failure to creep into their mind, stop them taking action,
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stop them from thinking productive thoughts and ultimately keep them in a cage that is defined by
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society of average. I remember at the speaking, uh, event that you did at Bush stadium recently,
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somebody said, Andy, what's your greatest failure? And I remember it cause it really stuck with me.
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I've never heard you phrase it this way, but this is what you're talking about is that your response
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was, I don't really think about it in that way. I don't think about biggest failure. I think of
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greatest lesson learned. Yeah. And that's, that's the truth. That's pretty amazing. I mean, if people
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could auto correct their brains to where every time they thought of failure, they thought of lesson,
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dude, if I hadn't have failed all those companies, those little ideas that I had, there's no way I
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would know what the fuck to do now. You know what I mean? So how can I look at those things as a failure
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if they all contributed to where I am? The trick is, is that when you're going through the process
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to be able to recognize that? I mean, it's easy for someone who's 10 years down the road
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and they're doing okay now to see that as a lesson, but the trick is to see it as a lesson
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while it's happening right now. And you say, you know what? Fuck, I won't do this again.
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And to be able to take all the negative and oppressive emotion that makes you feel like
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you're the size of an ant and just throw it up, throw it out the window and say, you know what?
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I'm not going to do this anymore. I'm thankful for the lesson and move forward positively.
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Yeah. Okay. So this last one's my favorite one because I know a lot of people like a lot of
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people's brains like to auto-correct into this word. And I know it's one of your favorites. Lucky.
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I think loser when I hear that word, honestly, but you know, let's say lucky. I would say
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productive. I would say productive is a word that people could substitute with luck. It's not,
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it's not luck. It's not magic. It's hard work. It's efficiency. It's effectiveness is execution
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and it's perseverance through the word. Number two, the failures of your course and time that
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are going to ultimately get you where you want to go. It's easy to say that guy's lucky. That guy's
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got better circumstances. That guy has more advantages than I do. It's easy for people to say
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that. And it's hard to do the work. So, you know, when you're in a group of people, three or four or
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five people and you say that guy got lucky, everybody agrees. Like, yeah, heck I did get
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fucking lucky. When in reality, you don't see like, for example, in my situation, the 10 years,
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I didn't get a fucking paycheck. You know what I mean? Or when I did, it was just so irrelevant.
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It was almost like getting nothing. You know, they don't see that. They see the end result. They see
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the Lamborghini or they see, you know, the travel to exotic destinations or they see the, the,
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the being the bossness of a CEO, you know, they don't fucking see what, what the perseverance it took
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or, or the hard work it took or the execution habits that they took. They see luck. And it's
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just far easier for people to say he, she, they got lucky than it is to admit the work that needs
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to be done and do the fucking work. It's just easier. So my challenge to you guys would be every
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time a negative thought enters your mind, willfully auto correct it on a conscious level, stop and think
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of the flip side to be successful. You've got to win the battle that goes on in your mind. That's the
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biggest battle you're ever going to face. The biggest enemy you're ever going to face is the voice
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inside your head that says you're a failure. The voice inside your head that says those people
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got lucky. The voice inside your head that says, this is too big of an obstacle for me to overcome.
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And you've got to take your thoughts. You've got to bend them to your will. Negative words. All they
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are is thoughts that are mental typos. Take your negative thoughts. Look at the flip side on a
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conscious level every single day and see what happens. I guarantee you in 30, 60, 90 days,
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you're going to have a totally different outcome than what you have now.
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