REAL AF with Andy Frisella - October 21, 2018


SUNDAY SERMON： Setting the Record Straight on Significance, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO268

Topics
inner peace and financial success recognition significance vs recognition candy corn living a life of significance
Hosted by
Andy Frisella
Mentioned
Matthias Bootlier Kim Kardashian Billy Graham Dude Ralph Waldo Emerson Van Gogh Brian George Herman Ruth Jr. Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Mordecai Ham Jesus Jara Moby Dick Babe Ruth Ed Milet Chevelle Fortnite Gospels Sermon Vaughn and 3 more
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In this episode of the MFCEO Project, DJ God and Pastor Vaughn discuss the importance of a Sunday Sermon and reminisce about growing up in Kansas in the 60's and 70's in cars. DJ God is a DJ, Pastor Vaughn is a pastor, and they are good friends.

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00:00:00.300 If you want to make your dream become reality, the people that are running after their dream know they're going to have hard times.
00:00:06.860 They keep on running because they're saying within themselves, I'm the one. I'm the one.
00:00:12.100 No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it.
00:00:16.120 What is up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host.
00:00:22.000 And I am the motherfucking CEO. 0.99
00:00:24.040 Today is Sunday Sermon. And I'm excited about Sunday Sermon because we haven't done one in a while. 0.99
00:00:32.420 And I've really started to enjoy doing these.
00:00:35.360 I got my man, my main source of the holiness, DJ, DJ God, Vaughn, the pastor of Disaster.
00:00:45.540 What's up, dude?
00:00:46.280 There's no way I can compete with MC French Fries today.
00:00:49.140 MC French Fries.
00:00:50.120 Because, you know, I don't even, dude, I bought this and I'm going to be honest.
00:00:55.980 It's the most comfortable thing I think I own.
00:00:58.520 It kind of looks like pajamas.
00:01:00.400 Yeah, if you didn't see my...
00:01:01.180 It looks like it would have a butt flap on it.
00:01:03.460 It might. I didn't check.
00:01:05.480 Why did Tyler make that observation?
00:01:08.900 I don't, because, yeah, because he wishes there was a butt flap.
00:01:13.580 He wants to get all unholy on Sunday.
00:01:15.680 That's right.
00:01:17.240 No, it's nice, man.
00:01:18.480 It is. You know, I've been traveling.
00:01:20.260 I've been out of town a lot the last month or so. 0.99
00:01:23.640 So we haven't really got down to sit down and talk about some meaningful shit. 0.98
00:01:30.580 It's true. 0.96
00:01:31.300 So today...
00:01:32.540 But before we do that, can I share something with you that I think you're going to think is kind of cool?
00:01:36.420 What's that?
00:01:36.920 Because I know you're a car guy.
00:01:37.960 Uh, so something that happened fairly recently that I actually thought was pretty cool was I found out that my neighbor, my next door neighbor that I grew up with in Hutchinson, Kansas, he actually listens to the show.
00:01:49.240 And he reminded me, because he, you know, he's, uh, he knows you're a car guy. 0.97
00:01:54.760 A cock guy? 0.98
00:01:56.380 I think you got one of, you got, we got confused. 0.99
00:01:58.840 You're speaking to me, but you were supposed to be speaking to Tyler.
00:02:01.520 You're a car guy.
00:02:02.620 This is a Sunday sermon, Vaughn.
00:02:03.760 Yeah, I know.
00:02:04.380 And, and I was reminded that they're talking about cocks, my fresh, my freshman and sophomore year of high school. 0.91
00:02:10.940 So we're talking like 88 and 89.
00:02:13.600 Okay.
00:02:14.040 If we're being honest, we drove all of us, my older brother, Brian and I, we drove Brian's car every day to school.
00:02:22.860 And I, I knew it was an old car, but I didn't realize it was a 1964 Chevelle.
00:02:27.360 Oh, really?
00:02:28.180 Yeah.
00:02:28.660 And we, and he, I remember I like, I literally have a flashbulb memory of, um, him.
00:02:34.380 Driving that car off his driveway for the first time after, uh, after, I don't know if his dad had helped him buy it or, you know, they worked out a deal where he paid for it.
00:02:42.560 But they used to drive like on extremely cold days.
00:02:45.660 They had a really strange sense of humor.
00:02:47.400 I was in the back seat and they would roll down the windows and just completely freeze me out.
00:02:51.340 So I, I have, I have associations of being very cold in a 1964 Chevelle, but yours isn't a 64, right?
00:02:57.480 It's a 70.
00:02:58.060 Here's a 70, which is probably better.
00:02:59.880 But, uh.
00:03:00.140 No, they're all cool.
00:03:00.960 The one, the one cool thing about Chevelles is they change literally every year.
00:03:04.920 Yeah.
00:03:05.020 So, um, up until 70, I'm not a, I don't like the 71s or 72s, but up until 70, they get cool.
00:03:12.020 Yeah.
00:03:12.180 Honestly, they're all different.
00:03:13.300 They're all really cool.
00:03:14.140 But it was a cool car and it was very loud car and, uh, smelled like gas, but it was a good, good times, good memories.
00:03:20.780 So.
00:03:21.840 So dude, what's on your mind today?
00:03:24.600 Well.
00:03:25.600 Jesus Jr.
00:03:26.200 Yeah.
00:03:26.940 You know how you're always talking about like, you have this sort of love, hate relationship with the success industry and the success and motivation space.
00:03:35.160 Like there's a lot of it you like about it, like the, like the personal development, that sort of stuff.
00:03:39.400 But there's other just total BS.
00:03:41.340 Look, I appreciate people that are genuinely trying to help people improve.
00:03:48.460 Like Ed Milet.
00:03:49.740 Okay.
00:03:50.080 And I know Ed. 0.97
00:03:50.800 Like Ed is like no bullshit. 0.98
00:03:54.800 He doesn't need the money. 0.96
00:03:56.400 He doesn't need to sell anything.
00:03:58.440 He genuinely cares about helping people, which is why we're partners in Arate.
00:04:03.960 Okay.
00:04:05.440 Um.
00:04:08.100 I love that kind of thing.
00:04:09.600 Yeah.
00:04:09.900 Okay.
00:04:10.200 But what I don't like is the fakeness of a lot of it.
00:04:15.000 You know, a lot of it's just, you could tell it's there to be self-serving to the people putting out the content.
00:04:21.400 Um.
00:04:21.840 It's not about, you know, truly helping someone.
00:04:25.000 It's about making people think that you want to help them.
00:04:30.560 But really they're trying to serve themselves.
00:04:32.680 Right.
00:04:32.920 Does that make sense?
00:04:33.600 Absolutely.
00:04:33.960 And that's actually what I'm getting at because I feel like in this whole space, there's this, there's a lot of talk about significance.
00:04:41.980 Like lead a life of significant.
00:04:43.960 Dude.
00:04:44.360 Do significant things. 0.99
00:04:45.600 It's the fucking buzzwords right now. 0.99
00:04:47.380 Like, dude, it's, it's, you know, people make these fucking memes that say shit like, oh, inner peace is the new success. 1.00
00:04:54.920 Motherfucker success is the new success. 1.00
00:04:56.940 Right. 1.00
00:04:57.520 That's the fuck, you know, but they, it's, it's pandering. 1.00
00:05:01.260 It's no different than a politician. 1.00
00:05:02.780 It's what can I say that will appease the most amount of people, right?
00:05:08.000 Whether it be true or not.
00:05:09.580 You know what I mean?
00:05:10.160 Right.
00:05:10.520 Absolutely.
00:05:11.180 And dude, is it important to have inner peace?
00:05:13.160 Yeah. 0.97
00:05:13.520 But I'm going to tell you this, inner peace and, and financial success, they don't go together until you've been doing it for a long fucking time. 0.97
00:05:21.600 Right. 0.98
00:05:21.920 Right. 1.00
00:05:22.260 So like, and there's just all kinds of those stupid memes that I see. 1.00
00:05:25.760 It's like really, honestly, 90% of them are bullshit. 1.00
00:05:29.880 And you could tell whoever wrote them and whoever's posting them has never really done anything truly in business. 0.99
00:05:36.560 You know what I mean?
00:05:37.460 Oh, absolutely. 0.99
00:05:38.180 A truly seasoned business person, entrepreneur wouldn't say shit like that. 0.99
00:05:42.560 Right. 0.99
00:05:42.700 So, you know, in my mind, I see that as predatory, right?
00:05:48.980 I see that as someone who's trying to market an idea to someone or get someone to endear them or like them or pursue them, whether they're telling the truth or not.
00:06:00.500 And I don't, it's manipulation.
00:06:02.180 I don't, I don't like that.
00:06:04.020 100%.
00:06:04.380 You know what I mean?
00:06:04.900 And it gives a sour taste, which is why I'm starting to withdraw myself from a lot of these, these events.
00:06:11.740 You know what I mean?
00:06:12.360 Like you shouldn't be able to do it. 0.99
00:06:14.460 It's not, it's not, to me, it's not morally okay to charge someone a thousand dollars to come to an event just to sell them more shit. 0.99
00:06:25.140 Right. 0.97
00:06:25.420 I, I think that if someone pays a thousand dollars, it's your obligation to give them some real fucking tools on how they can go out and get a return on that a thousand dollars. 0.97
00:06:35.660 That's, that's my opinion. 0.99
00:06:36.980 Now, if you want to sell shit, that's fine. 0.99
00:06:39.200 But you should, the teaching should be there. 1.00
00:06:43.420 Right.
00:06:43.640 You see what I'm saying?
00:06:44.200 Right.
00:06:44.460 And it should be more of a, sort of a casual sell, not a hard sell. 0.97
00:06:47.680 Oh, it shouldn't be this fucking, oh, right now it's 77%. 1.00
00:06:51.320 Get the fuck out of here, dude. 1.00
00:06:52.900 Right. 0.99
00:06:53.560 You know what I mean? 1.00
00:06:54.120 Like, I'm just tired of that shit. 1.00
00:06:55.900 Agreed. 1.00
00:06:56.360 And the reason I like Ed so much is, dude, first of all, you and I both know Ed's ridiculously fucking smart. 0.96
00:07:03.180 Absolutely. 0.79
00:07:03.600 And ridiculously a good guy.
00:07:06.920 And, um.
00:07:07.320 And it's an overused term, like a super overused term, but he is authentic.
00:07:11.780 Totally.
00:07:12.500 He is.
00:07:12.960 100%.
00:07:13.400 He is who he is.
00:07:13.900 Right.
00:07:14.180 You know?
00:07:14.460 And, uh, and dude, I just haven't met many people in this space that are like that.
00:07:19.900 You know what I mean?
00:07:20.420 And it's, and so like for me, I see all the fakeness.
00:07:25.680 And then what happens is, is I start to think of myself as part of that when I know I'm not.
00:07:30.860 Right.
00:07:31.280 Like, but I see myself as like, all right, people must perceive me like them.
00:07:36.280 Like you're guilty by association.
00:07:37.320 Yes.
00:07:37.560 And so I start to withdraw, I stop producing content, I stop doing things because I'm embarrassed. 0.96
00:07:44.100 And I'm like, this is fucking, I'm not a part of this. 0.97
00:07:46.260 Right. 0.98
00:07:46.680 And so I've decided that I'm just going, and I've talked to Ed about this a lot. 0.99
00:07:51.260 We're just going to move away from that shit and we're going to do our own stuff. 0.99
00:07:54.420 You know what I mean? 0.99
00:07:55.380 Like we're going to do things like, instead of going to these other fucking events, we're 0.97
00:07:58.440 going to do things like me and Ed go around and do fireside chats with people, you know, 0.98
00:08:02.100 in different cities.
00:08:03.080 I love it.
00:08:03.320 You know what I mean?
00:08:03.640 And do it small, you know, two, 300 people at a time.
00:08:06.960 You know what I mean?
00:08:07.540 And like, just keep it so we can truly provide value.
00:08:11.420 I love that.
00:08:12.000 You know?
00:08:12.320 And I love that you mentioned the politician aspect of it because, you know, you think of
00:08:16.960 the politician who's like kissing the babies and flipping the, flipping the pancakes
00:08:20.420 at the moose lodge.
00:08:21.660 Yeah.
00:08:21.980 They're doing it to get the vote.
00:08:22.860 And so that's kind of where I'm going with this is because there's so much talk about
00:08:26.280 pursuing a life of significance and doing significant things.
00:08:29.940 And really all of it is trying to make self-aggrandizement and puffing up your ego seem morally, you
00:08:42.460 know, morally praiseworthy.
00:08:44.460 You know, like it's basically saying, I'm going to talk about significant and making an impact,
00:08:48.780 but really this is all about me.
00:08:50.240 Right.
00:08:50.320 And so I wanted to, I really wanted to get your input on, I feel like there's a dark
00:08:55.480 side.
00:08:55.920 There's a dark side to pursuing a life of significance.
00:08:58.440 If you do it for the wrong road.
00:08:59.400 Well, the problem is, dude, here's the problem, bro.
00:09:01.040 The problem is, is that people are now totally conditioned for the like and the share and
00:09:08.040 the popularity and the follower.
00:09:10.360 Right?
00:09:10.500 And so what you have is you have literally hundreds of thousands of people out there associating
00:09:19.420 their self-worth with significance.
00:09:24.060 And they think significance means having a lot of followers, being popular, you know,
00:09:31.200 getting a lot of likes on their photos.
00:09:33.340 And that's why you see so many people ruin their social media because they do that one 0.99
00:09:38.980 post, they got a lot of likes and they just keep doing the same shit over and over again 0.97
00:09:42.940 and they become a machine for the likes. 0.82
00:09:45.740 And that's how many Instagram accounts do you see like that? 0.99
00:09:48.760 Fucking most of them. 0.99
00:09:50.400 Right. 1.00
00:09:50.500 Um, but see, the thing they don't understand is that you don't become significant by pursuing
00:09:59.060 significance.
00:10:00.800 Nobody that's been significant on the face of the earth set out to just be significant.
00:10:06.760 You know what I mean?
00:10:07.660 Like they set out to solve a real problem, to, uh, pursue a cause, to defeat an enemy,
00:10:13.980 to create, to help.
00:10:16.400 There's something more to it.
00:10:17.960 But it's not just about, and that's why like, dude, people say, well, what about actors?
00:10:22.980 What about this or that?
00:10:24.200 Well, dude, the best actors are the ones that care the most about creating awesome movies.
00:10:29.560 Right.
00:10:29.880 Telling the story.
00:10:30.700 Right.
00:10:31.300 It's not about ones who are just saying, I want to be the best actor. 0.86
00:10:34.120 They're the ones who say, dude, I am not doing that movie because it's going to be shitty.
00:10:39.060 I'm going to pick this movie.
00:10:40.320 I'm going to pick that movie.
00:10:41.180 I'm going to pick this.
00:10:42.080 And they go deep into being a character and they care about their craft.
00:10:45.560 And that's how they become significant.
00:10:47.960 All right.
00:10:48.380 And that, you can point to anybody like that.
00:10:50.860 Right.
00:10:51.440 And it's really goes, it really goes hand in hand with, with being successful in business
00:10:55.980 because people don't make a lot of money by trying to make a lot of money.
00:10:58.460 They make a lot of money by trying to solve a real problem.
00:11:01.500 Right.
00:11:01.840 Better than the other guy.
00:11:02.900 Right.
00:11:03.180 So you're saying that, that, that basically they're, they're making significance as they're
00:11:11.080 making significance as the thing that they're seeking rather, rather than the by-product
00:11:15.420 of seeking something else.
00:11:16.780 That's right.
00:11:17.080 Yeah.
00:11:17.700 That's right.
00:11:18.220 So, so, so yeah.
00:11:19.300 So like you said, I mean, I don't, I just restate you, you, you provide value.
00:11:23.820 You, you positively impact the world.
00:11:26.580 You make that your goal.
00:11:27.980 And then the by-product is you live the life of significance.
00:11:31.000 Right.
00:11:31.360 But if you're pursuing just significance for significance sake, to me, that's, it's all
00:11:35.420 about you.
00:11:36.040 First of all, or no, it's not to you.
00:11:37.820 It's to everybody.
00:11:38.760 That's how it is.
00:11:39.680 You know what I'm saying?
00:11:40.280 And what you're doing when you do that is you're falling in line with the 99% that are 0.98
00:11:45.140 never going to be significant in any way.
00:11:47.380 It's okay to want to be significant, but just understand that if you're going to pursue
00:11:51.880 that path for the sake of being popular, for the sake of being significant, you're going
00:11:57.980 to have a very difficult time doing it.
00:12:00.720 Right.
00:12:00.960 Okay.
00:12:01.360 So if you truly want to be significant, which is great, you should want to be significant
00:12:07.100 because that means you're being impactful in a certain way.
00:12:09.340 But if you truly want for selfish reasons, I want to be popular.
00:12:13.440 I want to be famous.
00:12:14.160 I want to be this.
00:12:15.480 I'm not saying there's something wrong with that.
00:12:17.580 But what I'm saying is understand that to get that, you have to do something else that
00:12:23.140 produces that.
00:12:24.820 You see what I'm saying?
00:12:25.460 Absolutely.
00:12:25.720 Do you think the test of whether we are doing it for the right reasons is, would I do this
00:12:32.420 if literally nobody but God and me knew I was doing it?
00:12:36.000 In other words, would I do this good deed?
00:12:37.660 Would I do this impactful thing?
00:12:40.940 Would I still do this literally if the only people that knew I was doing this was God and
00:12:45.820 myself?
00:12:46.620 I don't know.
00:12:47.160 I think there's an integrity aspect to that and maybe an authenticity aspect to that.
00:12:52.200 But what I truly think is that it's okay to want people to recognize you, but I think
00:13:03.320 you just have to understand how to go about it.
00:13:05.300 Right.
00:13:05.640 You know what I mean?
00:13:06.440 Right.
00:13:06.720 And it's the opposite of how most people go about it.
00:13:09.900 I don't know.
00:13:10.480 I mean, I think there's nobility in what you just said for sure, but I don't think that
00:13:17.020 like, I don't think that's the test, right?
00:13:19.520 Yeah.
00:13:19.900 I don't think so.
00:13:20.760 Huh.
00:13:21.240 I think it's okay for people to want recognition.
00:13:23.680 Recognition is a pretty basic human need for a lot of people.
00:13:27.300 Yeah.
00:13:27.420 You know, most people would rather be recognized than get paid.
00:13:31.580 Yeah.
00:13:31.880 You know, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
00:13:33.880 I think that's okay.
00:13:35.580 But you just have to understand that to be recognized, you've got to be good at something.
00:13:39.520 Right.
00:13:39.860 Or you've got to be producing something that causes that.
00:13:42.200 Right.
00:13:42.560 It's interesting.
00:13:43.160 There's actually two places in the Gospels where Jesus talks about this.
00:13:47.680 And in one place, he talks about like, he actually says, do your great works so people
00:13:53.240 can see them so that they give glory to God in heaven.
00:13:55.520 In other words, I mean, to put that into modern translation, he's saying, yeah, be really public
00:14:00.000 about the good things you do so that it makes people happy.
00:14:03.140 And they end up saying, yay, God, and yay, life, you know?
00:14:06.540 But then the flip side of it is that he takes on some of the religious people of the day
00:14:10.020 where he says, okay, literally the only reason that you're doing this is because you want
00:14:15.200 people to think you're amazing.
00:14:17.640 You know, it's entirely ego-driven.
00:14:19.820 So I guess what you're, yeah, I mean, what you're saying, there's just two sides of it.
00:14:22.740 It's okay to want the recognition.
00:14:25.020 It's okay to go public with things if the whole idea is that everybody benefits.
00:14:29.860 I'll be honest, dude.
00:14:30.780 Like, I actually, personally, I get a lot of recognition. 0.77
00:14:36.400 And honestly, I don't, people will say this is bullshit when I say it, but it's the truth. 0.99
00:14:42.320 I don't fucking care for it. 0.98
00:14:44.620 I only like recognition in my paycheck. 0.99
00:14:46.980 Me too.
00:14:47.740 That's it.
00:14:48.320 That's all I care about.
00:14:49.360 And I don't care about being recognized.
00:14:51.120 But I understand that the recognition comes with some of the things that I do.
00:14:58.040 Right.
00:14:58.420 Right?
00:14:58.700 It's just something that I don't really like about it.
00:15:00.840 But I deal with that because I know what I'm doing is good things.
00:15:06.740 Right.
00:15:06.920 You see what I'm saying?
00:15:07.600 Yeah.
00:15:07.620 You are, I would guess that you're probably like me.
00:15:09.740 Like, I don't care for recognition, but when I see other people get recognized.
00:15:13.680 I like that.
00:15:15.320 Right.
00:15:15.700 But what I'm going to say is when I see people get recognized for something that I could have
00:15:19.800 got recognized for and I didn't, like, that kind of, like, that adds a little fuel
00:15:23.920 to the fire.
00:15:24.680 Yeah.
00:15:24.880 See, I don't really care about that.
00:15:26.180 Oh, see.
00:15:26.440 Have you always been like that?
00:15:27.460 Uh, because, because right now you're at a stage in your life where you already have
00:15:32.780 built-in recognition.
00:15:33.380 Yeah, I never care.
00:15:33.620 I don't care about that.
00:15:34.280 So maybe if it completely disappeared, you might think differently about that. 0.99
00:15:37.340 I mean, dude, I like going to a restaurant and not having to wait for a fucking table. 0.98
00:15:40.460 Right. 0.99
00:15:40.800 That's nice.
00:15:41.480 But also what I'm saying, though, is like, if there's, if there's another podcast that
00:15:44.540 tops your business podcast, like, they're getting recognized as number one.
00:15:48.760 That eats at you.
00:15:51.320 Uh, I mean, yeah, I want to win.
00:15:53.880 Right.
00:15:54.140 Yeah.
00:15:54.280 That's all I'm saying.
00:15:55.180 Yeah.
00:15:55.440 But I don't care about being recognized.
00:15:56.760 That's more competition probably than.
00:15:58.780 Yeah.
00:15:59.340 Yeah.
00:15:59.640 But I want to win because I know, I want to know.
00:16:02.300 Yeah, I guess it is.
00:16:03.320 You know, like, I don't know.
00:16:04.260 Like, I haven't really ever thought about it too much.
00:16:06.220 Yeah.
00:16:06.340 I would much rather give the recognition that I get to, to, to my, to you guys or my team
00:16:10.980 or whoever, because dude, to me, it's not that big of a deal.
00:16:14.100 And the truth is, is that I don't really do that much.
00:16:16.460 Like, dude, I've got such good teams around me that most of the time I just have to show 0.84
00:16:20.380 the fuck up.
00:16:21.540 You know what I mean? 0.99
00:16:22.120 So I think, I think that's humility coming through.
00:16:24.880 You do a, you do a whole lot more than, than your, I mean, come on, dude.
00:16:29.820 Well, it's definitely a team.
00:16:30.880 Like if you suddenly died, heaven forbid, there'd be, I mean, could, could first form.
00:16:35.900 Yeah.
00:16:36.580 These, but they could move on.
00:16:38.020 Sure.
00:16:38.220 But they would be a huge loss.
00:16:39.700 Well, you know, I mean, dude, the goal is to build it so that it's not a huge loss.
00:16:43.420 Yeah.
00:16:43.580 I get it.
00:16:44.020 You know what I mean?
00:16:44.420 I get it.
00:16:44.840 But the goal in building a company is to build it so that no matter who leaves, it's irreplaceable 1.00
00:16:51.320 shit. 0.99
00:16:51.720 No, I get it. 1.00
00:16:52.240 Yeah.
00:16:52.540 No matter if it's CEO, if your company's dependent on the CEO to win, you're not building the
00:16:57.360 company the right way.
00:16:58.020 Right.
00:16:58.540 Well, yeah.
00:16:59.900 And I mean, America still went on without JFK, but you can bet that when he got shot,
00:17:03.960 people felt a huge loss.
00:17:05.160 Yeah.
00:17:05.380 They were sad.
00:17:06.040 So, um, so basically bottom line is you don't achieve.
00:17:08.620 There'd be more fries for everybody.
00:17:09.460 Yeah, exactly.
00:17:10.200 I'm just saying.
00:17:10.980 More fries and more beers.
00:17:12.300 Uh, so you don't achieve significance by pursuing it.
00:17:15.600 It's the result of pursuing something greater, which is impacting people and really selflessly,
00:17:20.760 you know, serving them.
00:17:22.280 Yeah, for sure.
00:17:23.120 And I think that's a big mistake.
00:17:24.440 I see a lot of, especially a lot of people making on social right now.
00:17:28.300 You know what I mean?
00:17:28.820 They're just doing things for the sake of doing it.
00:17:30.980 Yeah.
00:17:31.240 Not because it's really impacting people.
00:17:33.440 Yeah.
00:17:33.940 So you talked about the likes and the, and the comments and that sort of stuff.
00:17:37.940 So, I mean, how do you measure significance?
00:17:43.120 Like what's, what's dude, you know, what's funny is like, I don't, I think people forget
00:17:47.840 that like before social media, there's tons of significant people, very significant people 0.97
00:17:53.740 that nobody ever even knew who the fuck they were. 0.98
00:17:56.360 Yeah. 0.99
00:17:56.700 You know what I mean? 0.96
00:17:57.260 Like, dude, there's people in our city right now who spend every fucking free minute of 0.98
00:18:03.600 free time. 0.95
00:18:04.140 They have doing charitable things or doing good things for the homeless people or whatever.
00:18:08.820 Those people are making an impact, but nobody knows who they are.
00:18:12.780 You know what I'm saying?
00:18:14.040 And so they're significant.
00:18:15.960 They're super significant, especially to the people that they're helping.
00:18:19.560 Now, are they getting recognized for that significance?
00:18:22.660 No, but that's not the goal of what they're doing.
00:18:25.760 You see what I'm saying?
00:18:26.360 Right.
00:18:26.520 So I think significance goes way beyond recognition, in my opinion.
00:18:31.660 I just think that, you know, people have, can, can, can almost conjoin those two concepts
00:18:39.540 together, recognition and significance.
00:18:41.500 And they're not, they're not.
00:18:42.840 Right.
00:18:43.140 They're different things.
00:18:44.000 Well, think about how significant all the American soldiers who have lost their lives.
00:18:48.660 That's what I'm saying.
00:18:49.200 Who have delivered up their lives for freedom that we don't know.
00:18:52.480 You know, I love, I love that we have Tomb of the Unknown Soldier because it's a recognition
00:18:55.960 that there are people out there whose lives we don't know who have died for us.
00:18:59.940 Yeah.
00:19:00.160 You know, and it's, it's sobering, but it's also like, it puts you in your place when you
00:19:05.520 realize that there are people who have done a whole lot more than you and probably, and
00:19:09.300 I'm not picking on her, but I'm just, I'm just using this example.
00:19:11.640 There are everyday citizens who have made such an incredibly higher, more deeply impactful
00:19:18.400 mark on history than like someone like Kim Kardashian, who has 120 million followers.
00:19:26.300 And I'm not picking on her.
00:19:27.180 I'm just saying as an example, and literally nobody knows their name.
00:19:30.640 Right.
00:19:31.060 You know?
00:19:31.480 Exactly.
00:19:32.140 I get it, dude.
00:19:33.300 But we're driven, we're driven and taught right now to think that recognition and significance
00:19:38.220 are the same thing and they're not.
00:19:39.900 Right.
00:19:40.120 You know what I mean? 0.99
00:19:40.700 Like if you're raising your kids the right way, that's significant shit. 0.99
00:19:43.520 Yeah. 0.99
00:19:44.020 You know what I mean? 0.99
00:19:44.940 Now you may never get a fucking award for being a great parent, but that's the most 0.98
00:19:50.720 significant thing you can do in your whole entire life if you're a parent is to make 0.97
00:19:54.380 sure that your kids grow up and they're, they're functioning, they're geared to, to do well
00:19:59.220 in life.
00:19:59.860 They have the right moral compass.
00:20:01.540 They have the right values. 0.99
00:20:02.440 They have the right integrity and they're ready to go kick ass and, and they know to do the 0.99
00:20:06.840 same. 0.99
00:20:07.220 You know what I mean?
00:20:07.700 A lot of people right now, you know, this is a little off topic, but I hear them complaining 0.98
00:20:11.600 about society yet when they go home, you know, their kids, they don't fucking pay attention 0.99
00:20:17.300 to their kids. 0.99
00:20:17.800 They put their kids on a fucking video game and they're drinking a martini chilling. 1.00
00:20:21.220 Right. 1.00
00:20:21.620 And it's like, well, motherfucker, you are the problem. 1.00
00:20:24.580 Like you're the problem. 1.00
00:20:25.860 And, but they're bitching on fucking Facebook about society while their kids are sitting 1.00
00:20:31.700 there on the video game for 12 hours playing Fortnite. 0.99
00:20:34.300 If your kid can do the fucking Fortnite dance and every one of them perfect, you probably 0.99
00:20:38.320 have an issue with your parenting skills. 1.00
00:20:40.200 Absolutely. 1.00
00:20:40.720 You should be fucking real, man. 0.99
00:20:42.200 You know, like you're complaining about something while you're creating the problem and people 0.99
00:20:47.120 just aren't aware enough to even recognize it.
00:20:49.500 You know what I mean?
00:20:50.100 Absolutely.
00:20:50.500 True significance is making impacts on people one case at a time.
00:20:55.680 You know what I mean?
00:20:56.380 People think, and I stress this when I talk to my companies or anybody's companies, people
00:21:02.520 think that, that they have to become recognized and then they can be significant.
00:21:07.040 Well, the truth is, is that if you want to be recognized, you've got to be significant
00:21:11.520 on a million tiny little one-on-one situations.
00:21:15.980 It's like asking for a raise before you even put in the work.
00:21:18.420 It's exactly like that.
00:21:19.640 It's exactly like that.
00:21:21.220 That's actually a pretty good analogy.
00:21:22.680 I'm proud of you.
00:21:23.580 You must not have smoked crack this morning.
00:21:26.520 You must have got some good deeds this morning, huh?
00:21:29.240 Yeah, you did steal that.
00:21:29.960 No, I tell you, man, and for what it's worth, there are a number of people in the history
00:21:35.000 of the world who became well-known and famous after they died.
00:21:40.280 I know that you're, I might be remembering this wrong, but I thought you had told me one
00:21:44.260 time that you were a big fan of the essay Self-Reliance by Henry David Thoreau.
00:21:48.480 Yeah.
00:21:48.940 And I didn't realize this, but Thoreau was not a big deal when he was alive.
00:21:53.500 Wait.
00:21:53.700 It was...
00:21:54.860 Self-Reliance.
00:21:55.880 Self-Reliance.
00:21:56.580 There's some...
00:21:57.160 No, is it Self-Reliance Emerson, dude?
00:21:59.300 Might be Emerson.
00:22:00.120 It is Emerson.
00:22:00.700 But I know that Thoreau...
00:22:01.780 I'm going to Google it right now.
00:22:02.580 But Thoreau, obviously...
00:22:04.300 If I'm right, you're wrong.
00:22:06.200 I'm impressed.
00:22:07.200 Yeah.
00:22:07.540 But to my point, Emerson and Thoreau, you know, similar in their impact and kind of their
00:22:13.800 approach to life.
00:22:16.020 Thoreau was not well-known while he was alive.
00:22:18.220 Van Gogh was not well-known.
00:22:19.500 Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
00:22:23.640 Ralph Waldo Emerson.
00:22:23.960 Nice. 1.00
00:22:24.500 Now he's a fucking smarty pants, motherfucker. 1.00
00:22:26.600 I'm impressed. 1.00
00:22:27.620 But like, Van Gogh was not well-known when he was alive.
00:22:30.620 And now his paintings go for like millions of dollars.
00:22:33.000 Bach.
00:22:34.040 Herman Melville, who wrote Moby Dick.
00:22:35.700 All these people...
00:22:36.560 Yeah, but dude, they're significant.
00:22:37.700 ...who have lasting legacies.
00:22:38.920 That's a perfect...
00:22:39.420 Like, take any artist.
00:22:40.760 That's a perfect example, right?
00:22:42.540 Yeah.
00:22:42.760 Now, I don't really get into art or anything, but it is a perfect example.
00:22:45.920 People who become... 0.99
00:22:48.320 These people spend their whole lives like a hermit in a fucking cave, painting all these 1.00
00:22:54.420 fucking pictures. 1.00
00:22:55.920 And nobody... 0.99
00:22:56.480 And they're not doing it...
00:22:57.420 They're not doing it for anybody else.
00:22:59.500 They're doing it because they love it.
00:23:00.960 And they're putting their own spin on things and their own authentic style.
00:23:06.140 And they're... 0.98
00:23:06.600 Dude, if the average person could seriously just fucking develop their own authentic self, 0.96
00:23:13.940 which most people never do their entire lives, dude, they would be... 0.97
00:23:17.520 Those people, by default, would be successful just for being able to do that.
00:23:20.800 Yeah.
00:23:21.240 You know what I mean?
00:23:21.920 Yeah.
00:23:22.220 And I'm not talking about money.
00:23:23.340 I'm talking about life.
00:23:24.160 No, I agree.
00:23:25.040 One of my favorite quotes is saying Catherine of Siena says, if you are who you were meant to...
00:23:28.580 Are you sure you got that person right?
00:23:29.500 Yes, I'm pretty sure. 0.99
00:23:30.700 I don't know if you'd ever trust your fucking quotes again. 1.00
00:23:33.120 No. 0.99
00:23:33.720 St. Catherine of Siena said, if you're who you're meant to be, you'll light the world on fire.
00:23:38.340 And it's just...
00:23:39.260 I mean, it's true.
00:23:40.920 Or you'll light the world on french fry.
00:23:42.460 Yeah.
00:23:43.400 You'll fry the world in a fryer.
00:23:45.420 If people could actually see this right now...
00:23:47.380 It's pretty impressive.
00:23:48.140 Yeah.
00:23:48.300 It's pretty bright, actually.
00:23:49.920 Yeah.
00:23:50.100 You know, I'd like to get one that's candy corn.
00:23:52.420 Candy corn.
00:23:52.780 Or hot tamales.
00:23:53.680 Some people hate candy corn.
00:23:54.900 I love candy corn.
00:23:55.500 I do too, man.
00:23:56.180 Yeah, man.
00:23:56.700 It's awesome.
00:23:57.500 Like, what do you think of candy corn?
00:23:59.540 I'm indifferent about it.
00:24:00.460 Like, I don't hate it.
00:24:01.360 Like, I hate black licorice, but...
00:24:02.920 Oh, dude. 0.98
00:24:03.380 Black licorice is gross. 0.57
00:24:04.560 And so are black jelly beans. 0.67
00:24:05.980 Yeah. 1.00
00:24:06.300 Fuck that. 1.00
00:24:06.840 If you eat that, you're a fucking alien. 1.00
00:24:09.400 Amen. 1.00
00:24:09.740 So you don't like whatever it is that the two share in common.
00:24:12.220 What is it?
00:24:12.580 Anise?
00:24:13.400 Is that what it's called?
00:24:13.960 Anise.
00:24:14.500 That's probably what it is.
00:24:14.800 I knew that was coming.
00:24:16.260 But no, candy corn, it's like one of those, it's just, it's a whatever candy to me. 0.99
00:24:19.220 Dude, it's one of those things where, like, if I eat one, I'll eat the whole fucking tray. 0.99
00:24:22.800 Or the bowl, or whatever. 0.99
00:24:24.120 Well, that's actually what happened to me the other day.
00:24:25.960 It was my dad's favorite candy, so in October, I always, like, grab a bag.
00:24:30.140 I don't normally eat it, but I literally ate the whole bag.
00:24:32.600 How'd you feel afterwards?
00:24:33.680 Not good.
00:24:35.160 I mean, I felt really good, like, in the short term.
00:24:38.100 No, I didn't go to confession, but I went to the bathroom.
00:24:41.000 But that's another story.
00:24:42.160 But anyway, so basically, what we're saying is significance is not validated by names
00:24:48.220 and numbers, by whether everybody knows your name, or whether you have a lot of followers.
00:24:52.420 It's validated by the impact that you make, and the legacy that that impact is going to
00:24:55.160 leave. 0.99
00:24:55.640 Dude, you know, I feel like that is such, I feel like that is not rocket science, it's
00:25:01.660 no doubt, but I think people in today's day and age need to be reminded of that.
00:25:04.500 Dude.
00:25:04.860 Like, your social media following, it's not your impact.
00:25:07.540 Vaughn.
00:25:08.240 None of this is rocket science.
00:25:09.460 It's not rocket science, but here's the thing you have to understand is that these
00:25:13.420 people are sucked into it like a vortex.
00:25:15.720 You know what I mean?
00:25:16.540 It's like, it's just, it takes awareness to not think like that because that's all we're
00:25:24.840 told right now.
00:25:25.940 You know what I mean?
00:25:26.720 Like, dude, you're getting, like, dude, I got, I get special privileges at like, like 0.99
00:25:31.340 I said, at a restaurant or something because I got fucking followers on Instagram. 0.99
00:25:34.680 Yeah. 0.99
00:25:34.840 Like, that's ridiculous, but I'm still going to take it. 0.79
00:25:37.960 Right, right, right. 0.90
00:25:38.720 I'm just saying, like, it's, it's the truth.
00:25:41.920 And like, you have, and by the way, just to point this out, I didn't have a million followers
00:25:53.720 and then people started listening to me.
00:25:56.040 Right.
00:25:56.760 It was the opposite.
00:25:57.620 Right. 1.00
00:25:58.220 I started with fucking nothing and built that shit. 1.00
00:26:02.180 Right. 1.00
00:26:02.440 Through, through making impact.
00:26:03.740 Providing value.
00:26:04.560 Through providing value.
00:26:06.020 You know, it's, it's something that people just lose sight of, you know?
00:26:09.540 Yeah.
00:26:09.820 And, uh.
00:26:11.740 I don't know, dude.
00:26:12.360 I just, I'm glad we're talking about this because I just see a lot of people out there
00:26:15.760 and they look at somebody like you and you got a million followers and then they just
00:26:19.560 beat themselves up, you know?
00:26:20.900 And they're like, oh, I don't know if I'm really making an impact with my life or they get
00:26:25.000 obsessed about like, I don't know.
00:26:27.420 It just seems like I get, I get it.
00:26:29.480 Trust me.
00:26:29.840 I get it.
00:26:30.200 I want to make an impact.
00:26:31.160 I want to be significant, but it's so easy how our minds make that a negative thing.
00:26:37.920 All of a sudden it becomes something to stress about instead of just this noble aspiration.
00:26:42.560 And, and we compare ourselves to other people.
00:26:45.700 We get worried that, you know, it's like I posted about this the other day.
00:26:50.020 I mean, just, you start getting later in life and you're like, oh crap, I haven't done
00:26:53.080 anything.
00:26:53.420 I haven't really impacted people.
00:26:54.440 I haven't transformed the world and it just becomes a source of stress instead of, instead
00:26:58.280 of this really awesome drive to, to impact people, you know?
00:27:06.160 People are just following the lead that they have.
00:27:08.440 You know what I mean? 0.98
00:27:09.220 They're following the fucking quote unquote do-gooder guy on Instagram who's posting this 1.00
00:27:15.540 fucking arbitrary bullshit memes about doing the right thing and this and that. 1.00
00:27:22.680 And they leave it at that. 0.99
00:27:23.960 But really, let's be, let's be honest, you know, living a life of significance and living
00:27:30.300 a life that I would call a good life has to do with doing the right thing, treating people,
00:27:37.960 you know, the right way in real life. 1.00
00:27:40.620 It's not about liking their shit on Instagram. 0.99
00:27:43.300 It's not about, you know, leaving a heart comment on somebody's picture. 1.00
00:27:47.380 It's about giving the fucking homeless guy who's digging through the fucking trash right 1.00
00:27:52.620 in front of your face, 20 bucks so he could fucking eat. 1.00
00:27:55.820 And, you know, and not saying, oh, well, I'm sure he's just going to go drink and blah, 1.00
00:28:01.160 blah, blah.
00:28:01.560 You know what? 1.00
00:28:02.020 That's not your fucking call, motherfucker. 1.00
00:28:04.240 You got 20 bucks. 1.00
00:28:05.340 That dude is digging through the trash. 1.00
00:28:06.780 Give him fucking 20 bucks. 1.00
00:28:07.800 I agree 100%. 1.00
00:28:08.520 You know what I'm saying?
00:28:09.480 What he does with it, that's his decision.
00:28:11.240 He gets wasted and it's the best day of his life.
00:28:13.040 Hey, you know what?
00:28:13.900 I don't worry myself with decisions they make.
00:28:16.220 It's about what decisions I make.
00:28:17.880 Right.
00:28:18.200 So that I could walk away and say, you know, I did the right thing.
00:28:20.780 Whether he does the right thing with that or not.
00:28:22.780 And the truth is, he probably won't.
00:28:24.120 And that's probably why he's in the situation he's in.
00:28:26.020 But the truth is, is a clear conscience is, I think, the most important part of living 0.98
00:28:34.920 a fucking good life. 0.98
00:28:36.320 You know what I mean? 0.99
00:28:37.020 And this chasing recognition and aligning it with significance and the way people are
00:28:43.060 seeing it right now is so skewed and off.
00:28:51.000 And, you know, it just, it just wears on me personally.
00:28:59.700 You know, I enjoy what we do.
00:29:03.220 Like, I enjoy doing this podcast, which, by the way, we've been number one consistently 0.96
00:29:08.660 for, like, the last two weeks, which is fucking awesome. 0.81
00:29:11.380 Yeah, it is awesome. 0.57
00:29:12.120 By the way, guys, thank you.
00:29:13.560 Because, okay, talk about recognition.
00:29:15.720 That's cool.
00:29:16.560 That is cool.
00:29:17.600 Yeah. 0.99
00:29:17.900 But that's been three and a half years in the fucking making. 0.99
00:29:21.080 You know what I mean? 0.99
00:29:22.080 To where we've, you know, solidified number one business podcast in the fucking world 0.98
00:29:27.540 and top 10 overall podcasts. 0.96
00:29:30.240 I mean, that's an accomplishment.
00:29:32.180 I feel good about that.
00:29:33.300 But that didn't come just because I wanted to be recognized.
00:29:35.540 It came because you and I and the three of us and a number of other people have consistently 0.96
00:29:41.960 worked hard to put shit out that helps people, that makes people think, that makes people 0.98
00:29:48.080 develop, that helps people get better. 0.99
00:29:50.140 And with that came the recognition, right?
00:29:55.180 But the significance was already there.
00:29:57.260 I mean, dude, how many emails do we get about people or letters do we get? 0.75
00:30:00.660 Dude, we get so many letters here, I can't even fucking open them all.
00:30:03.500 And dude, I know that sounds bad, but... 0.86
00:30:07.520 No, it's absolutely true.
00:30:09.040 Yeah, it's true.
00:30:09.840 Yeah.
00:30:10.060 And I mean, I don't, you know, you're going to clown on me for saying this, but I actually
00:30:14.480 mean it as a compliment to you.
00:30:17.740 Like, dude, I have no idea how you keep up with the DMs the way you do, because even little
00:30:23.300 me, I'm looking at my thing going, holy cow, I really want to try to respond to these
00:30:27.220 people.
00:30:27.420 But I've got a ton of them that I haven't responded to, and it's what for me, and I
00:30:32.980 know it's true for you guys, the number one ranking, here's why that's significant, is
00:30:39.200 because it means people are getting the content.
00:30:40.960 That's right.
00:30:41.320 And their lives are being changed.
00:30:42.180 That's right.
00:30:42.880 To me, that's why it's satisfying. 0.99
00:30:45.520 It's not some bullshit fucking meme out there that says, live a proper life and you'll be 1.00
00:30:51.340 happy or some fucking stupid shit. 1.00
00:30:53.560 This is real shit. 1.00
00:30:54.840 Yeah. 1.00
00:30:55.040 You know what I mean?
00:30:56.000 And like, I'm proud of that.
00:30:58.500 Yeah.
00:30:58.780 I am proud of that. 0.63
00:30:59.860 But I'm not proud of, the recognition is cool, but I didn't fucking do this just to 0.94
00:31:04.340 be number one. 0.94
00:31:05.460 Right.
00:31:06.060 We did this because, and the same reason we do the children's books, the children's
00:31:10.880 books don't make us money, they cost money.
00:31:12.920 They cost a lot of money. 0.77
00:31:14.600 I lose fucking a lot of money doing those children's books. 0.99
00:31:17.280 Yeah. 0.99
00:31:17.580 For real.
00:31:18.220 Yeah.
00:31:18.560 Like, dude, we do not make, we have not made a dollar on those children's books.
00:31:22.440 They cost us money.
00:31:23.680 But I'm okay with that because you know what? 0.85
00:31:26.100 I've been super fucking fortunate financially. 0.99
00:31:30.980 I work my fucking ass off. 0.98
00:31:32.980 But the truth is, is I feel like that's a way for me to give back to help parents that 0.99
00:31:39.120 don't necessarily know how to teach their kids the right shit that they, you know, cause 0.98
00:31:44.880 they weren't raised that way. 0.99
00:31:46.040 Like, you know, so we give them a tool and if we lose money, we lose money.
00:31:49.400 I don't care.
00:31:50.040 But this is about impact.
00:31:51.600 Absolutely.
00:31:52.420 And, uh, I don't know.
00:31:54.460 I am proud of that.
00:31:55.420 Yeah.
00:31:55.860 You know, and the ranking's cool.
00:31:58.080 It's like a, you know, it's a little thing, you know, it's a little middle finger to everybody
00:32:01.180 else.
00:32:01.500 But, you know, that's how-
00:32:02.800 But you're proud of it because we did it the right way.
00:32:05.460 You know?
00:32:05.840 And it's like what you're saying.
00:32:07.160 A clear conscience is better than a sense of significance.
00:32:10.920 Yeah.
00:32:11.300 It really is.
00:32:11.880 Yeah.
00:32:12.580 Um, and knowing that you did the right thing and being able to live with yourself-
00:32:16.500 You know what's cool, dude?
00:32:17.400 I was just in Denver and I get, you know, I usually get recognized pretty regularly anywhere
00:32:24.080 I go now.
00:32:25.040 And, uh, uh, you know, not like crazy, but like I'll get, you know, all the course of 0.99
00:32:29.760 a day in Denver, I have three or four people come up to me and be like, dude, fuck, it's 0.98
00:32:33.120 so nice to meet you. 0.99
00:32:33.820 But dude, every time I meet one of these people, they're the coolest fucking people. 0.98
00:32:36.880 Yeah. 0.99
00:32:37.200 They're cool as fuck. 0.99
00:32:38.380 Like the guy, the people who listen to this podcast on a regular basis are the most down 0.97
00:32:42.740 to earth, regular, awesome, cool people, you know, but, and it's cool to meet them.
00:32:49.040 You know what I mean?
00:32:49.760 And like to hear the stories.
00:32:51.100 Like I met a guy who's in the oil and gas business when I was in Denver and he was telling
00:32:54.880 me about him and his wife and how they listen to the podcast together. 0.95
00:32:58.340 And he was telling me about how it helped this business and all this shit. 0.99
00:33:01.480 And like, dude, that's, that's cool as fuck. 0.99
00:33:03.580 You know? 0.99
00:33:03.920 Like, I don't know, man.
00:33:06.880 Law of attraction.
00:33:07.960 Yeah.
00:33:08.180 But the point is, is that you can't get to a point like that without, you know, the
00:33:13.400 recognition doesn't come before the significance.
00:33:15.440 And to be completely honest, the recognition isn't even important.
00:33:18.360 You know, it's the significance.
00:33:19.720 And every single person listening to this podcast right now has a circle of people that they
00:33:24.640 influence, whether it be one other person, whether it be two, you might be sitting there
00:33:29.380 listening and saying, nobody listens to me. 0.99
00:33:31.040 Nobody cares about what I have to say, but that's bullshit. 0.99
00:33:33.060 That's you telling you that nobody cares. 0.97
00:33:35.980 The truth is a lot of people, a lot, you have the power to do good and influence people. 0.99
00:33:41.800 And dude, this could be simple shit. 0.98
00:33:43.580 It can start off as little bitty gestures, you know, and you're going to laugh when I 0.99
00:33:48.040 say this, but like, let's say you're a waitress at a restaurant right now.
00:33:51.100 And everybody's like, you know, no one cares about me.
00:33:54.720 I'm just a little waitress, but dude, you could set an example real easy and to, and
00:34:00.420 get people's respect just by doing the little things that other people aren't willing to
00:34:04.820 do.
00:34:05.060 Like you see trash on the floor, you pick it up, you know, take extra pride and everything
00:34:08.960 that's going to cause people to start respecting you.
00:34:11.700 And that's going to influence them to do better.
00:34:13.860 And dude, as little as that sounds, that's the first step to being significant is taking
00:34:18.520 care of yourself and doing the right thing.
00:34:20.980 A hundred percent, you know, within, within the group, you know, and, and, uh,
00:34:24.700 um, you know, people think that, uh, you know, these people who have all this recognition,
00:34:30.680 you know, that they just got there by accident, you know, and some of them did, some of them 1.00
00:34:36.960 did, you know, you said Kim Kardashian, Kim Kardashian made a fucking sex tape. 1.00
00:34:41.420 Let's be fucking real, dude. 1.00
00:34:43.000 You could say, Oh, they did this and they did that. 0.99
00:34:45.040 Well, the only reason anybody knows who the fucking Kardashians are in the first place 1.00
00:34:47.940 because of that fucking sex tape. 1.00
00:34:49.340 All right. 1.00
00:34:49.820 And they, and I give them credit, dude.
00:34:51.240 They built a lot of great business off of it. 0.96
00:34:53.020 Fucking good for them. 1.00
00:34:53.860 I don't hate, I'm not hating at all, but sometimes we aren't blessed with fucking sex 1.00
00:35:00.140 tapes, you know what I'm saying? 0.99
00:35:01.880 So we got to do other things, you know, and like the other things are this, you know, set
00:35:07.820 an example for what's good, set an example for what's right, help people where you can,
00:35:12.120 when you can, every time you can.
00:35:14.120 And that's going to be significant.
00:35:15.620 And when you make a character trait and a habit out of doing things that are significant to
00:35:22.480 other people, guess what happens?
00:35:24.440 The recognition comes.
00:35:26.060 So it's okay.
00:35:27.000 If you guys want the recognition, I'm not hating on that, dude.
00:35:30.320 I, I am not. 0.55
00:35:31.540 A lot of people will say, Oh, you know, that's the same guys who fucking are out there doing
00:35:38.040 it for themselves will be the same ones to say, never do it for the recognition. 0.90
00:35:41.900 Look, dude, I don't care if you do it for the recognition. 0.97
00:35:45.420 Just understand that the easiest way to get it is to do the right fucking thing and to 0.91
00:35:50.400 be a good person and set an example and to show that in every chance that you get and 0.97
00:35:55.300 to do it genuinely.
00:35:56.360 And the recognition comes as a by-product, you know what I mean?
00:35:59.300 But significance always comes first.
00:36:00.820 If you chase the significance and think that it's the same thing as recognition, you're
00:36:04.780 never going to get it.
00:36:05.680 Right.
00:36:05.840 And that's the culture we live in right now. 0.99
00:36:07.300 We have a lot of people who want to be fucking famous for doing fucking nothing. 0.99
00:36:13.000 And while they might have, you know, I mean, the truth is, is if you deleted fucking Instagram 1.00
00:36:20.800 right now, how many of those motherfuckers would even matter? 1.00
00:36:24.580 That's a good question. 1.00
00:36:25.640 You know what I'm saying?
00:36:26.260 Yeah.
00:36:26.520 Like if Instagram disappeared right now, social media disappeared, how many of those people 0.98
00:36:30.580 would truly fucking matter? 0.97
00:36:33.720 Not many. 0.97
00:36:34.600 Right.
00:36:35.060 Not many.
00:36:35.560 That's right.
00:36:35.900 I mean, on a day-to-day basis, they wouldn't exercise any influence over us.
00:36:39.520 No.
00:36:39.880 Positive or negative.
00:36:40.800 That's right.
00:36:41.560 Yeah.
00:36:42.020 So, you know, if you want to truly become recognized, it has to, I don't think it has 0.97
00:36:56.860 to, but I think a good way to think about it would be, would I be significant if fucking 0.97
00:37:02.320 social media didn't exist? 0.98
00:37:04.320 You know what I mean?
00:37:05.000 Yeah.
00:37:06.000 That's a good thought.
00:37:07.760 Honestly, the only other thing I'll add is just kind of circle back to something that
00:37:12.520 you've said, and I want to reemphasize it.
00:37:15.740 Well, let me tell you, let me put it this way.
00:37:17.440 So most people have never heard of Brother Matthias Bootlier, but Brother Matthias Bootlier
00:37:24.560 is the priest who taught a certain George Herman Ruth Jr. how to play baseball, and nobody heard
00:37:34.520 of Matthias, but they sure as heck heard of Babe Ruth, right?
00:37:37.700 Mordecai Ham is a guy that nobody's ever heard of, but at least in Christian circles, you might
00:37:44.420 have heard of the guy who became a Christian under the influence of Mordecai Ham.
00:37:48.920 His name was Billy Graham.
00:37:50.080 And if you know anything about Billy Graham, if you're a Christian, you might not even because 0.71
00:37:53.740 he's been a very famous person over the last hundred years.
00:37:56.380 Nobody preached to more people in the history of the world than Billy Graham.
00:37:59.540 And so I would say something that a friend of mine, his dad used to say to us all the time,
00:38:06.040 you know, because you grow up in Christian circles and you always, you get this really
00:38:09.580 sort of romantic epic notion about going to Africa and being a missionary or going to Russia
00:38:13.200 and being a missionary.
00:38:14.080 And he used to say, listen, if you don't love your neighbor, if you don't care about your
00:38:18.380 neighbor, you're not going to care about anybody else over the globe, right? 0.85
00:38:23.800 So make it your point to impact the person right in front of you, to be significant to the
00:38:28.400 person right in front of you.
00:38:29.400 And so that's what I would say is maybe you will be a brother of Matthias.
00:38:33.420 Maybe you will be a Mordecai Ham. 0.83
00:38:35.580 Think about how you'd feel going to your deathbed, knowing that you impacted somebody so much that
00:38:41.360 they went down in history.
00:38:43.340 You know, we meet people every day that we can impact.
00:38:47.320 And, you know, to your point, live with a clear conscience, focus on the people who are
00:38:52.400 around you and don't be obsessed with recognition.
00:38:58.400 And I'll tell you why.
00:39:06.340 Glad to hear you.
00:39:07.740 dow- essence is going to your life.
00:39:07.800 And, you know, to your greatest of life.
00:39:07.920 All you can購誇, verdade. 0.73
00:39:09.380 And then to be aware.
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00:39:25.620 We are so sorry.
00:39:25.640 We are now.
00:39:26.820 to our life.