REAL AF with Andy Frisella - March 29, 2018


Power is YOUR Obligation, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO226

Topics
power
Hosted by
Andy Frisella
Mentioned
Achilles Hector Randall Pitch Homer Simpson Brad Pitt Eric Bana Pol Pot
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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

157.02

Word count

1,452

Sentence count

141

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

19

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Hate speech

5

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Summary

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In this episode of the MFCEO Project, I talk about why you don't have to be a stuffy nerd to become a CEO, and why you are the CEO of you, whether you realize it or not.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I can stack them hunts to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon. Without
00:00:05.320 me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
00:00:12.440 What is up guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host and I am
00:00:17.980 the motherfucking CEO. This is your first time listening. This is a entrepreneurship 0.99
00:00:23.760 slash personal development podcast. Welcome. We are going to take your face and smack the 0.88
00:00:32.820 shit out of it. Probably punch it a few times and make you cry. And then you're going to 1.00
00:00:39.000 go home and think about who the fuck you are and you're going to make adjustments. And 1.00
00:00:44.100 my goal, my hope, my wish for you is that you make adjustments to become the motherfucking 0.99
00:00:50.800 CEO of you. And what is a motherfucking CEO? Realize that you don't have to be a stuffy, 0.99
00:00:57.160 weird nerd to be a CEO. And you are the CEO of you whether you realize it or not. 0.91
00:01:04.200 Most people never even realize that. Most people go through life looking to take direction,
00:01:12.140 looking to take orders, looking to be a responder to other people's inputs. They look to live in a
00:01:24.500 reactionary state. And that's just not the way to live. The way to live is to understand that
00:01:30.740 you're in control of your decisions and your decisions will create certain outcomes. And if
00:01:34.820 you do that with a little bit of confidence, with a little bit of swagger, you will become 0.99
00:01:40.520 a motherfucking CEO as well. And what I'm going to talk about today. Oh, and by the way, 0.99
00:01:45.660 Tuesdays, we do our longer podcast. Thursdays, we do shorter podcasts. You know, this is going to be
00:01:52.760 five to 10 minutes or something like that. So what I want to talk about today, guys, is this. All right.
00:02:01.040 We are taught our entire lives that people who seek influence, that people who seek
00:02:10.360 power are somehow wrong. Look at what anybody tells us growing up. They'll say, oh, that guy's
00:02:19.940 the leader of this or that guy's the leader of that. And they'll say, well, he's an egomaniac or
00:02:25.780 he's got something wrong with them or he's a narcissist or he's this or he's that. They always
00:02:30.500 follow it up with something negative to insinuate that it's wrong and morally misaligned to seek
00:02:39.440 power. But I want to ask you a couple of questions. Number one, do you consider yourself a good
00:02:47.240 person? And number two, do you seek power? If you answer yes to both those questions, great.
00:02:54.300 You've already got it figured out. But if you answer yes to the first and no to the second, you are what's
00:03:01.400 wrong with this society. You're the reason that the world isn't a better place. Let me explain.
00:03:09.400 I know I talked about the Greek shit the other day in the RTA podcast, but I'm going to talk about it 1.00
00:03:14.140 again. Have you ever seen the movie Troy? It's based on the Greek epic story, the Iliad. All right. 0.98
00:03:21.040 It's not the greatest movie of its kind. If you've seen it, you know that it's a lot of cheese,
00:03:25.840 but it has good moments. And in the movie, Brad Pitt plays Achilles and Eric Bana plays the Prince
00:03:32.700 Hector. All right. Achilles is like the undisputed badass warrior of his day. No one even comes close.
00:03:38.920 He's a fucking legend. And even though the movie portrays him in a slightly positive light in the 0.99
00:03:44.900 real story, he's not a good guy. He's the bad guy. He's self-centered. He's egotistical. And for lack
00:03:50.920 of better terms, he's a douchebag. All right. Now, Prince Hector is different. He's valiant. He's 0.99
00:03:56.500 respectable. He's a loving husband and father. He genuinely loves the people of his kingdom that he
00:04:02.280 leads. All right. He's a really good dude. And at one point in the story, Achilles and Hector fight.
00:04:08.240 And guess what? Hector gets in a few good licks. All right. But at the end of the day, Achilles
00:04:13.220 embarrasses him and kicks his ass and fucking kills him. And then to insult his entire community, 1.00
00:04:20.920 he straps Hector's dead body on the chariot and drags him around on the battlefield to show off
00:04:26.060 just so he can rub it in. And I was watching this movie with my wife and she was shocked. She was
00:04:32.480 like, wait, so Achilles just kills Hector. That's not like the way it's supposed to go. Hector's the
00:04:37.980 good guy. He's supposed to win. The good guy always wins. Wrong. The good guy doesn't always win.
00:04:45.220 Here's the reality. Whatever our teachers taught us in elementary school, whatever stories they used
00:04:52.300 to read us to make us feel good and nice and fluffy, like they love to do, the good guys definitely
00:04:59.680 don't always win. You know, those 300 Spartans everybody loves to talk about, you know, and get
00:05:05.120 tattoos of and talk about how they're a fucking Spartan too. Well, guess what? If you're a fucking 0.99
00:05:10.260 Spartan, you're a fucking loser because they fought hard and they were badasses. But in the end, 1.00
00:05:15.440 guess what? Xerxes won. That's the reality. All right. In 1939, the noble people of Poland
00:05:23.220 fought valiantly against the invading Germans. But in 18 days, 18 days, they got completely
00:05:30.980 fucking destroyed by the Nazis. Good guys don't always win. If you listen to my podcast, I did with 0.98
00:05:38.080 my good friend Randall Pitch. His mom escaped Cambodia when it was being ruled by the communist
00:05:43.300 leader Pol Pot. He and his regime successfully killed almost 3 million of his fellow countrymen. And 0.95
00:05:49.820 sure, he died in a jail cell at age 73. But does that mean the good guys won? Absolutely not. So this
00:05:58.400 idea that good people always win because they're good is complete fucking bullshit. All right. Homer, 1.00
00:06:05.260 the dude that wrote the Iliad, not Homer Simpson from Springfield, all right, was Greek. And the
00:06:11.440 Greeks knew that the good guy doesn't always win. They knew the person who always win is the person
00:06:18.040 who is the best, the biggest, the strongest, the fastest, and bottom line, the most powerful.
00:06:27.360 And yeah, it sucks, but it's true. Sometimes the most powerful person is selfish. Sometimes the most 0.83
00:06:34.780 powerful person is a douchebag. Sometimes the most powerful person is the bad guy. They are evil. 0.99
00:06:44.380 Which brings me back to my original questions. Are you a good person? Do you always try to do the
00:06:50.460 right thing? Do you always treat people with kindness and respect? Do you tell them the truth? Do you give
00:06:56.400 more than you take? Do you do what you can to help people? Are you committed to making the world a
00:07:03.360 better place? Good. Those are all great qualities to have. I don't think anybody would argue that.
00:07:10.160 But do you seek power? Do you work hard to become physically, emotionally, and mentally stronger? Do you
00:07:18.880 try to become the best at everything you do and to perfect your mindset, your habits, and your skills
00:07:25.400 so that you can lead other people on the same path that you're on? Do you try to position yourself as
00:07:34.460 the decision maker and influencer, not just in your own home and in your own life, but in every square
00:07:40.060 inch of this earth and in every life in the whole world? Because that's your obligation if you're morally
00:07:47.640 aligned. That's your obligation if you're morally correct. That's your obligation if you come from
00:07:53.200 integrity and you have a good heart and you're doing the right thing by others. I get it. Power can
00:08:00.940 be abused. It can be used for evil, but it doesn't need to be. And we don't have enough people who are
00:08:07.840 cut from the right cloth, who are cast from the right mold out there seeking positions of power and
00:08:15.740 influence. We need people like you. We need people like you to infect and instill the proper morals
00:08:26.260 into the next generations. You cannot sit there and be quote unquote good and think that you're
00:08:33.400 living a moral life because that's not enough. We need your influence. We need your voice.
00:08:40.040 We need your power. And all the people who told you it was wrong to seek power, it was egotistical to
00:08:48.060 seek power, it was selfish to seek power, are people who don't understand what it can do for good.
00:08:56.820 If good people won't exert power, if good people won't seek power, if good people won't spread the
00:09:03.940 message of what it means, bad people will. And when that happens, the good guys definitely aren't
00:09:13.180 going to win. And I want you to think about that.