Why Excellence Is Everything, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO151
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Summary
In this episode of the MF CEO Project, we talk about why excellence is something you need to strive for, why it's important, and why you shouldn't focus on being perfect. We also talk about the people out there who struggle in everything they do, and the people who make a lot of money.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the MF CEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the
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motherfucking CEO guys today we're going to talk about excellence we're going to talk about why
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it's important we're going to talk about why it is something that you need to strive for we've all
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heard that saying focus on progress not perfection you know what I think that's bullshit because if
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you focus on being perfect and you try to do everything the best you can you cannot help but
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make progress and you know when people say oh well focus on progress not perfection it sounds so whiny
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so cry baby and so bitchy that I feel like people use it as an excuse to try and justify their half-ass
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efforts on a daily basis you know and we all know that's true look at the people out there who struggle
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in everything they do what is their ultimate thing they say oh well I'm doing the best that I can
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no you're fucking not you're not doing the best you can you're focusing on the fucking progress you're
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not trying to be better you're not trying to improve you're not trying to be perfect you're
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trying to pretend that you are focusing on getting better so that you can at least say well I'm trying
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and dude that doesn't get you shit all right so we're going to get into that in a minute before we do
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well uh it's gonna be a good weekend uh it's just it's beautiful in St. Louis I got a few things
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planned with my wife we got planned uh we're gonna go to a bed back beyond yeah right a little nice
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little Saturday right actually we're gonna go to a party that I wondered if Emily was gonna be at
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is Emily gonna be at a party tonight no okay well it was she's gonna be at my pants party
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it's a local it's a local magazine party that she has written for so am I invited to the pants party
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always Tyler always right so uh that and then uh you know I don't know I might trick out our uh Versa
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yeah yeah put some spinners on it some spinners on it yeah real gangster shit yeah so you know we
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talked about money last week and we talked about you know uh how people think money is wrong and how
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people think uh you know the wrong things about money which ultimately keeps them from getting any
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money and I got to thinking about this a little more and you know the we talked about how people
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who make a lot of money don't focus on money and I I want to kind of you know unravel that for
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everybody in this episode and talk about why the elite earners of our society focus on excellence
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and perfection and everything they do and that's why they earn money and so that's what we're going
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to talk about because um and what's funny is is I you know I think it's weird that we have not
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covered this subject before right you know went through all 150 episodes without ever hitting this
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and it's I mean it's the subtext of everything right on the assumption right yeah yeah so so we talk
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about like you know people who focus on results who focus on solving a problem who focus on providing
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a service make the most money those people focus on doing that thing in a perfect manner they don't
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focus on doing it half-ass or you know uh cutting a corner or this or that they focused on being not
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just a solution but and I think it's important to note the best possible solution and you know what
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you're not always going to be the best possible solution when you're in business because ultimately
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business is very competitive and other people are going to see what you do and they're going to copy
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what you do and sometimes when they copy what you do they're going to improve upon what you do
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and then it's your job to pay attention to the landscape go out and improve upon that which is what
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ultimately evolves the marketplace so I think it's important to note that like all improvement all
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evolution all growth of society is driven by people who pursue the best possible result at all times
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right and you know do people really consider that and and break that down and think about how our society
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has evolved you know all the great technologies all the great ideas all the great luxuries that we have
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in our lives those all came from people who pursued excellence to to improve upon something that
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already existed you know and that's what causes evolution so a lot of people and I think people
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need to realize this in business this is part of natural business growth you know you're going to be in
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business it's your it's your duty as a business owner or the member of a company to pay attention what
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everybody else is doing and when something else comes out you're going to have to adjust and improve
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upon that and a lot of businesses and a lot of CEOs and a lot of quote-unquote entrepreneurs and people
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small business especially you know they continue to do the same thing without ever evolving and ever
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improving and ever changing their product and dude that's why they lose that's why they die so the goal
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would be to get in that dogfight and continue to try to be the most excellent as Bill and Ted
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uh Bill and Ted would tell you right you just dated yourself a little bit but so if I understand you
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correctly basically for the last 150 episodes you you've been telling everybody how to be excellent
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and kind of assuming that people understood why and now you're gonna you're gonna unpack yeah I
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want to break that down because I think it's a I think it's a a worthy topic to really talk about
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absolutely you know what I mean because I think a lot of people get lost like especially business
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owners or people who are moving them their way up in a business like let's say you're a middle
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management guy uh and you're in a growing company and you've been doing pretty good but then you know
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this new guy comes along and he's doing better than you and instead of like observing him and saying
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okay uh he does this well this well this well I need to brush up my game here and get better than him
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at that people just say oh well that dude's better than me and he's gonna get all the opportunity and
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they just keep doing what they're doing and then they wonder why they never you know get where they
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want to go because they get stale they don't grow they don't evolve and that level and perception of
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pursuit of excellence and competition mixed together is what ultimately keeps people evolving no matter if
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you're the owner or if you're a management or you're entry level you know you have to you have to look
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at the people who you're competing against and if you're in a company uh you might be on the same team
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with a lot of same people but you're still competing against them you know and you have to look at those
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people and say all right this dude's got this this this down I need to get better at this this this so
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he doesn't beat me and then he's and if that guy's good he's gonna look at you and say man that guy
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stepped up his game now I'm gonna step up my game and that level of competition over and over and over
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that's what ultimately drives the growth and and and productivity and profitability and earning
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potential of every single person inside of an organization yeah that uh that attitude that you
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said that the guy had well oh well he's just better I think that also betrays the assumption that it's a
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zero-sum game and if he's excellent it means well I guess I can't be you know yeah yeah like like
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there's a scarcity uh of excellence right right a scarcity of excellence or that things are fixed
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like he's better and that's just the way he's got more talent rather than dynamic like well
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okay he's better now but five years from now I could be better than him so it's it's it is a it
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is an overall negative mentality that a it's scarce scarce and b it's static it's never gonna change
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right and and I think most people get stuck in their most people that get stuck in their careers
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and their jobs get stuck for one or two reasons one they're in a company they're not aware enough
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to notice that the company's not growing and they don't have any upside to what they're doing
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maybe three reasons two if they're in that situation they don't take it upon themselves
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to grow the company you know you the ceo doesn't have to be a guy to grow the company
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you know what I mean and if you want to create extreme value you could be the middle management
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guy and figure out how to fucking grow or uh three you know they just assume that uh people are better
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and that's the way it is so they stay where they are right you know right before you get into your
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specifics I just read this study that basically said that most people think creativity is a is a
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natural talent and the study has concluded and it's just been this exhaustive thing over the last
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couple years the study concluded that yeah there are people who have a penchant for creativity but 90
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percent of creativity and innovation is a learned quality or learned um attribute and I you know
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they were saying it's like a muscle just the more you the more you work at it the more you develop
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right and I do think that there are people deep in their hearts if they thought about it they're
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like well Andy's just born with this disposition that he's competitive and he's excellent yeah and
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that I just don't have it people people say that about everything like I just had a conversation with
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a friend yesterday who was telling me and I've I've gone through social media how to grow use your
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Facebook ads and and create good content with her over and over and over and and she asked me yesterday
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do you think so and so could help me with my social media I'm like what are you what are you
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talking about I already told you everything that you need to do and she goes well I'm just not good
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at that and I'm like well the answer to that is is not to say oh I'm not good at that the answer
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is to get fucking good at it you know what I mean like everybody kicks the can down the road by saying
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oh that's not my thing I'm good at this or oh that's not my thing I'm good at that the opportunity
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for growth is in that thing that you're not good at that you're telling yourself I can't learn or I
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can't do or I can't become good at you know what I mean right and people just don't they see it as a
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hindrance as opposed to an opportunity and that's what really fucks them up you know so you can't
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you can't look at these things as you can't learn them you should be looking at them as like oh I
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have an opportunity to improve here here's how I improve but dude at the end of the day the reason
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people don't do that is because they don't want to do the fucking work you know what I mean they
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just don't want to fucking do it they don't want to do the fucking work they don't want to put in
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the time they don't want to put in the effort they don't want to start from scratch you know this is
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especially for people who have already been in business for a while and they just gets complacent and
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you know once somebody's in that mindset there's it's really kind of all downhill
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so it is funny they don't put those like those correlating things together that you know the
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more skill sets that you have more valuable your business it's basic you know shit it's basic to us
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but I mean you know people people define themselves in different ways especially mentally and they say
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oh I'm not good at that I can't do that and when you say that guess what's going to happen you're
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never going to be any good at it what you said Tyler makes me think and what we've been talking
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about it is crazy how many people you know we we assume things we know why we do certain things
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but it is amazing how many people just don't even understand why they do things and I remember being
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in my master's program for English and writing and asking my professor so why'd you go into why'd you
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go into you know teaching English literature and I was just shocked at her her response she stopped for a
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like that's a good question I don't really know and I'm thinking you don't know but it is it is very
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common for people not to evaluate why they do things and so that's why I think it's super important
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that we're going to be talking through this yeah so um I've broken this down basically into five
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different points that we can go through uh and we're just you know we'll we'll state the point and
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we'll talk about it like we usually do um the first point is this and this is very very important
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and we've talked about confidence before in other podcasts and why it's important but we're going to
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talk about in terms of excellence you know and you guys have to understand that and this is the point
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without confidence you can't really stay on course in life okay you're not going to be able to
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persevere you're not going to be able to go chase your goals and dreams you're not going to be able to
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fight through the hard times and you can't ever get a true confidence unless your life is defined
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and characterized by the pursuit of excellence and if you want to put that in like a more simple way
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it's basically this you can't feel good about yourself if you do things half-ass if you're not
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doing things good you're not going to feel good no matter what the fucking unicorns of society tell us
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these days they say oh you should feel good about this because you tried you I don't care how many
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times somebody says that tell me the last time that you felt good about something when you tried
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but you didn't do it well not very good it doesn't happen it doesn't happen not one fucking person
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listening to this podcast right now can can name me a time and I want you guys to think about this as
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I'm saying this name me a time that you felt good about something that you did that you fucking sucked
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that that you did half-ass okay it could be something as simple as sweeping the floor you saw a couple
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crumbs over in the corner you said I'll fuck those crumbs and you got the rest of them do you feel good
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about the job you did no it's in our human DNA to only feel good when we do things well and that's why I
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always tell people you know the work comes before the belief and you know to define that and break that
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down if you haven't listened to that episode nobody believes in the beginning you know the people
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who built the fucking pyramids didn't believe they could build the pyramids they said fuck it we're
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gonna build the fucking pyramids and we'll see what happens and they went out and they built the first
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two or three levels and then they said oh you know what this is this is actually coming together
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pretty nice and then they said all right let's build three more levels and then they built three
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more and they're like oh you know what this is still working let's keep going and then they get
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halfway done and they say oh you know what this is going to work this is going to be awesome this
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is going to be a wonder of the world this is going to be the greatest tomb in the history of earth
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and they build something that lasts for fucking I don't know how many years Professor Vaughn
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centuries I have no idea long fucking time yeah you know we're still talking about it but the point
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is is that they didn't you know very very very very very few people in the beginning and I'm talking
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about when I say in the beginning I mean in the be your entrepreneurial age all right that's a new
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term right your entrepreneurial age it's not your physical age it's your entrepreneurial age which
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means if you're starting out thinking like an entrepreneur not actually owning a business because
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you should be thinking like an entrepreneur even if you're working in a business but if we start
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thinking like an entrepreneur at 35 your entrepreneurial age is one all right you see what I'm saying right
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so when you have a young entrepreneurial age it's hard to fucking believe it's hard for you to believe
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it can be done it's hard for you to believe that you can improve but after you have some faith and
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this is where faith comes into the process people like to associate the word faith with religion and
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God and all this shit but it's just as powerful in the relevance of this con context you've got to
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have faith that the job can get done okay and when the job you can't believe in the job in the beginning
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you got to just go out and start doing it and eventually you're going to see a little bit of
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result and then your belief is going to grow eventually your result you're going to see a
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little bit more result your belief is going to become stronger and as your entrepreneurial age
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progresses and you've accomplished one two five seven things big things that you didn't know were
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possible now you get to me where my entrepreneurial age is like I don't know 30 years old because I've
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been doing it since I was eight seven you know what I'm saying right I believe I can do anything
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like I don't see limits I believe anything I do I could do and I just know we just got to go do it
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and we can make it work if as long as we as long as we go out and start doing it we'll figure it out
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along the way and that is is what the work before the belief ultimately means and why it's so important
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so to apply that to your uh your your pyramids analogy so when they're done with that then the
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pharaoh comes along and says hey guys I want you to I want you to build the sphinx right and the
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inexperienced guys go oh man yeah but the guys that build the it's gonna be cake yeah it's gonna be easy
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because they already did it exactly and you know how this applies to excellence is is is basically
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guys in very simple terms the more you master this concept you know whether like I said it's
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sweeping the floor or leading a massive fortune 500 organization the more you feel like you're in
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control the more you feel like the master of your whole entire existence okay and that's what you have
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to understand confidence is super important to the pursuit of excellence because if you don't believe
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that you can do it why would you do it the best that you can you see what I'm saying because like
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a lot of people dude if they don't believe that they can do something or do a good job they just don't
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try you know what I mean right does that make sense yeah it it does and I'm I've got this thought
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sort of germinating in my mind is that I see it you you you talk about being excellent in the way that
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you sweep the floor and it's amazing because people just don't see the connection between that
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and that and and where you're at right now where you're you know you're experiencing a lot of you
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know success as other people define it and you've got loads of money in the bank and and and you feel
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good about yourself the average person I just don't think they they see okay sweeping the floor this
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little task so it doesn't seem to connect I don't see but what you're saying is no you got to
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approach that like it's a huge building block look this goes right into my next point okay so
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let's let's start that and then I'll tie that together okay so the next point point number two
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is that pursuing excellence protects you from the danger of laziness okay and yeah danger it's a
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danger it's very dangerous because laziness is a habit all right excellence is a habit and this is goes
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into what you were saying about sweeping the floor whether it's picking up a speck of of trash that
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you see that isn't yours you know or or sweeping the floor perfect to where there's not one speck of
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dust taking pride in everything you do doing everything excellent creates the habit of doing
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everything excellent so the same thing with laziness like if you skip over that little pile of dirt in the
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corner or you let that piece of trash uh lay there when when you're the guy even if it wasn't yours and
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you let it stay there and you don't pick it up you're creating a habit of laziness and that's going to
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poor people think that's no big deal they think oh yeah you know it's just that piece of paper it's just the
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floor well then it's just you know then it's just your uh your reports oh it's just the reports that I
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got to turn in oh it's just my uh my appointments oh that's just a meeting you know and then you know what
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oh it's just your fucking paycheck yeah you know what I mean yeah and so these guys they don't
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understand that you know the reason I'm so I make such a huge people that work here understand this
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but people might not understand this other places because the reason that I take everything so
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serious and I'm so against people half-assing thing is because it creates not only a habit of laziness
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but it kills the the first point which is the confidence in your ability to do excellent work
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you see what I'm saying so remember when we had Will Compton on the show many many moons ago yeah I
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remember his his coach at Nebraska said how you do one thing is how you do everything yeah and that's
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become a pretty mainstream saying yeah I see it everywhere but I think it's 100 true yeah and how
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you do everything is who you become basically yeah yeah whether that be how you fold the laundry
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how you make your bed how and you know by the way I don't make the bed because I know Emily listens to
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the podcast or she's like what the fuck are you talking about but I definitely don't make the bed
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but when if I if I did make the bed motherfucker look good you know what I mean yeah I'm all or
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nothing yeah but the point is is that everything that you attempt to do should be done with the
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intention of it being perfect so I think part of that is because deep down you know if you do
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half-asset people can lie to themselves but deep down you know well yeah that you that you have
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that you have to deal with that you could put on deal with that guilt well and you could put on the
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front all you want about how how uh you know great you do and how good you do and this and that and
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but at the end of the day you've got to sleep at night and you know you're going to be holding
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yourself accountable whether you want to or not it's just part of human nature and and part of
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building that true pride and belief and and feeling of excellence is doing everything with that with
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that same feeling you know what I mean not cutting any corners not doing anything to save time doing
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it the right way every time and and something I think that is important to point out here is that
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you know a lot of people look at other people and they say oh they're natural born leaders well you
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know why they're natural born leaders they're not natural born leaders those people just pursue
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excellence in their own actions and other people notice it and so when it comes to managing and it
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comes to being a leader when it comes to being an executive or a manager or a ceo or any of these
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other things a coach a player a captain on a team whatever it is your leadership role parent
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people pay way more attention to what you do than what you say and you know I know everybody
00:24:14.440
everybody uh has heard the saying by Vince Lombardi uh lean by example isn't the only or isn't the best
00:24:21.480
way to lead it's the only way to lead it's so true and it and it comes down to pursuit of excellence in
00:24:27.180
your own actions you know if you're if you're out there and you're a manager and you're not doing the
00:24:33.260
things that you require your employees to do or ask your employees to do and they see that
00:24:37.800
why why on earth would they do it if you're not doing it it's just not going to happen you know and
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you know unfortunately that's what people do they they they tell people what to do instead of like
00:24:50.960
leading people with how they do it so that's kind of off track but um moving on point number three is
00:25:01.240
pursuing excellence is going to improve the quality of your social life and and the equality of your
00:25:07.780
social life is very very very important because who you surround yourself with is who you're going
00:25:14.940
to become okay you're not going to get in the right circle you're not going to get around high earners
00:25:20.580
creative people people with the right connections which are all very important
00:25:24.680
without being the kind of person that pursues excellence in everything that they do okay there's not one
00:25:32.900
person i know in my circle that's lazy at all in any way okay in fact i might be the laziest one
00:25:39.560
these people are focused they're driven they are detail oriented in everything that they do
00:25:46.460
and those are the people that like we talked about a couple episodes ago those are the people that bring
00:25:52.520
opportunities those are the people that you create new businesses with change new products evolve grow
00:25:58.100
earn money and if you don't have that habit you're not going to get into groups like that you're going
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to get into groups that are like you you're going to get in with people who cut corners you're going
00:26:08.980
to get in with people who do shit half-ass you're going to be surrounded by people who don't necessarily
00:26:14.380
earn high levels of income and if you can't get out of that circle you're going to stay in that circle
00:26:21.600
in terms of what your life has become so if i understand you correctly though it's not like you
00:26:27.800
have to seek uh the high earners the higher achievers you're saying if you become that kind
00:26:33.840
of person it will be it will happen naturally yes you'll naturally attracts like a hundred percent
00:26:38.260
birds of a feather flock together as they've said yes and it doesn't have to be by design that's
00:26:42.680
another thing we can like kind of go off track on a lot of these young like young entrepreneurs
00:26:47.440
gary v has everybody fucking dming everybody now like he's been posting he's been have you seen
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that hey how to dm and collab on fucking instagram send motherfuckers a dm and eight hours a day get
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the fuck out of here you send me 10 dms i'm gonna block you because you're fucking annoying okay that
00:27:07.360
doesn't work dming people saying hey let's collab that's some bullshit i don't care what anybody says
00:27:13.040
that shit ain't gonna work it ain't gonna fucking ever work if you want to fucking
00:27:17.180
collab with somebody go out camp out their front fucking door and figure out how you can be a
00:27:22.640
value to them until they fucking figure it out dming people for eight hours a day is a waste of
00:27:26.940
your fucking time right period and i think you know because this has happened to me i'm sure it's
00:27:31.300
happened way dude you should see my fucking dms thanks gary motherfucker you know what i'm saying
00:27:36.200
no i agree like hey bro let's collab what are we gonna collab on right what are we gonna collab on like
00:27:41.960
let what are we fucking we're gonna go dancing you know like what what what you are begin you are
00:27:48.440
you are entrepreneurial age one i'm entrepreneurial age 30 what the fuck are we gonna do together
00:27:53.600
you get it and have you ever gotten the dms that say uh well i can see you and i share the same values
00:28:00.800
and and i'm so excited that you share my values look and it's like and you look at it and you look at
00:28:07.080
their social media and they're clearly haven't done anything they've got like four posts i'm not
00:28:10.780
knocking anybody's hustle but that's the wrong way to hustle that's what i mean it's it's insulting to
00:28:15.400
say you and i are so alike no no no not just that but the dm thing yeah like i'm bro like i dm'd you
00:28:22.160
check them like dude i don't check my fucking dms i don't have a team of people that were on my social
00:28:27.880
media you know if you notice i don't have all the fancy graphics and shit like i got fucking me and i got
00:28:33.480
tyler and guess what we do other shit besides this you know what i'm saying we're running a
00:28:37.860
company uh so dm and me is going to be a waste of your fucking time i don't check them and it's you
00:28:45.820
know i i just i kind of want to punch gary in the fucking nose like bro why are you telling people to
00:28:52.760
do this it's you know what i mean yeah like 100 of people i'm guessing without me saying this would
00:28:59.220
have heard what you just said saying we don't have a graphics team you don't have new graphics coming
00:29:03.360
up every day nobody's gonna reach out to you and be like hey bro i made this for you you know yeah
00:29:10.820
not one person will say hey i'll take care of that for you let me exactly yeah right and then carve out
00:29:15.380
a place on the team there's there's how you collect exactly right no i don't want anything in return
00:29:20.180
but i wanted to i mean give you these five god bless gary dude everybody knows i love gary but what
00:29:24.580
the fuck bro you know what i'm saying a radical increase in your dms huh anyway yeah don't fucking do
00:29:32.860
that all right so uh where were we can i can i recap yeah okay so uh first three points are
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number one without confidence you can't really stay on course in life you can't persevere in your goals
00:29:47.100
and dreams and you cannot get true confidence unless your life is characterized by the habit of
00:29:52.020
excellence number two pursuing excellence protects you from the danger of laziness uh number three pursuing
00:29:59.080
excellence is going to improve the quality of your social life and really your whole experience
00:30:02.680
of human society yeah and i'll move right into number four because it goes right along with everything
00:30:09.340
else and we'll just keep this moving the pursuit of excellent guys is going to make you highly resilient
00:30:16.120
okay and what that means is when bad shit happens to you you're not going to be as affected by the bad
00:30:22.760
shit as you would be if you weren't the kind of person who pursues excellence all right people who
00:30:29.420
half-ass things they they they have bad things happen to them and they shut the fuck down people who pursue
00:30:35.960
excellence and try to do everything they can when bad shit happens to them they say hey you know what
00:30:40.600
all right that probably wasn't the best way to do that so let's adjust and let's go at it again
00:30:46.860
and then if that happens again all right well we learned two ways now not to do that up until as
00:30:53.560
many times as it takes how many times it takes thomas edison to invent the light bulb 10,000 times 10,000
00:31:00.680
times and if you just do that if you understand that if you understand that every bad thing or you know
00:31:07.840
the sky's falling situation that happens to you is an is an opportunity for you to adjust and go at it
00:31:15.200
again failure is impossible it's impossible you'll figure it out if the fact of the matter is is that
00:31:22.480
you have to have the core values of pursuit of excellence to do that because if you don't have
00:31:26.540
that tenacity and you don't have that drive you don't have that ambition to be the best you're going
00:31:31.900
to quit when bad shit happens and that's that's where the resilience comes in well i love edison's
00:31:37.800
quote when they said how did you persevere through those 10,000 failures he said those weren't failures
00:31:43.280
i learned 10,000 ways how not to make a light bulb but that's that's so accurate i mean it's amazing
00:31:49.740
that that mindset right yeah i mean it's why we're still saying his name years later right 100 120
00:31:57.440
years yeah whatever it is you know and people have to understand that part of committing to excellence
00:32:02.920
is is the will to win it's the will to be the best no matter what it takes over and over and over
00:32:09.700
again and that means you have to like be stubborn as fuck to make sure that no matter what happens
00:32:16.000
no matter what comes down the pipe no matter what hits you in the face you are going to see it as
00:32:20.460
something positive because you're going to see it as oh okay well i understand now that that's not
00:32:26.520
going to be the best way to do this so i'm going to adjust my technique i'm going to regroup i'm going
00:32:31.400
to stand back up i'm a dust off and i'm going to fucking go at it again and you repeat that process
00:32:35.940
over and over and over and that's the thing about entrepreneurship that people don't understand
00:32:39.900
is where you know people like to throw around the fucking buzzwords hustle grit blah blah blah
00:32:44.240
no it is grit it's true fucking grit it's getting up when you've been punched in the fucking mouth
00:32:50.340
over and over and over and over again until you knock that motherfucker out and that's how it goes
00:32:56.640
the beautiful thing about what we're talking about is that you're in control of how many times you get
00:33:01.940
up you're in control how many times you dust off you're in control how many times you go back at
00:33:06.860
it and people you know they get this idea in their head that if they failed one two or five times then
00:33:13.980
then you know then they're not going to do it dude motherfucker people fail 500 times 5,000 times
00:33:21.280
it's just a matter of having that grit and that will to win and the will to be the best no matter what
00:33:28.740
happens until you figure it out and you become the best and it's not any more complicated or difficult
00:33:36.200
than that and that's where the the core value of pursuing excellence in everything you do the habit
00:33:42.240
of pursuing excellence in everything you do comes into play you know that's why sweeping the floor
00:33:47.840
perfectly matters that's why you know cleaning your house perfectly matters that's why doing the extra
00:33:56.320
two reps in the gym matter you know everything fucking matters because it's all contributing
00:34:02.300
to the core personality traits and character traits that we're developing which are ultimately formed
00:34:10.260
from habit you follow me absolutely so i as you were talking i was just thinking you know the average
00:34:16.140
person they look at pain and suffering trial and tribulation as an excuse to stop working but anybody
00:34:21.600
anybody anybody who's actually done shit sees that as an excuse you know what i mean like like when
00:34:28.380
people like i do look through my dms i just don't respond because i there's no way i fucking could
00:34:33.880
it's just it's impossible the shit that people fucking tell me about like why they're not able to do
00:34:42.580
something or this or that it's it's like i'm like sitting here and i'm like have you watched like my shit
00:34:48.400
like if you have you listened to my do you know what i would actually say if i responded to you
00:34:53.100
like i would tell you you're a fucking bitch it's almost like they're trolling you no they're not
00:34:57.600
they're serious yeah you know what i mean it's like have you paid attention to anything i've been
00:35:03.160
saying you know what i mean yeah no i do but you know i just like i said the the the average people
00:35:08.980
they the minute they hit challenge they use it as an excuse but it really is amazing because the elite
00:35:13.740
of the elite you know they encounter pain and suffering trial and tribulation and to them it's
00:35:18.540
an opportunity for an even greater glory and greatness i you know i was thinking
00:35:22.140
exactly yeah exactly i mean i i'm not you know tyler's the resident patriots fan here and i'm i'm not a
00:35:30.080
patriots fan but you got to believe like somebody like tom brady at halftime of the super bowl last
00:35:36.800
year there might have been people who were like oh crap we're dead and i i really everybody thought that
00:35:42.240
right and i truly believe that at some point in his mind he said this is awesome i have the i have
00:35:47.480
the opportunity to have the greatest comeback in nfl super bowl history and that's just the way that
00:35:52.320
he had to have thought that otherwise it wouldn't happen he had to have right and i mean that's i'm
00:35:56.820
in awe of that i mean let's face it that's that is truly amazing yeah especially when you consider
00:36:01.140
the scape uh or i mean the scope and the scale of of what you're facing there with the whole world
00:36:07.260
watching and the pressure and right the the actual statistics that they can show you that you're not
00:36:11.820
going to fucking do this like that's insane that's an insane belief right or even the even the
00:36:16.980
temptation that i'm sure players have to say well you know the atlanta falcons they're just a darn
00:36:21.560
good team and we've you know we've done our best but they have an amazing offense and it's just their
00:36:27.480
time that clearly didn't even cross his mind nope you know nope and that's champion that's the
00:36:33.560
difference between somebody who wins and somebody who's in the hall of fame right you know i'm saying
00:36:37.900
right because like there's a whole not there's always another another level that dude's on
00:36:41.940
another level right well that's the thing he already had four super bowls yeah he didn't need
00:36:45.580
a fifth but right you know but i'm but it's not even about that that's that's not even what it's
00:36:50.140
about for him i guarantee you he did not think oh i need a fifth super bowl he said it didn't that
00:36:55.780
would not matter to him if that if that was a fucking scrimmage he would have fucking went at it the
00:37:00.600
same way and that's what creating a habit of excellence does it doesn't matter if you're playing in the
00:37:06.380
fucking super bowl or if you're playing in the fucking backyard thanksgiving you're trying to
00:37:11.560
fucking win and they don't adjust their technique based upon the scale of the event it's just who
00:37:20.720
they are and i think that's important for somebody to really think about you know think about that in
00:37:27.240
terms of your job or your career or whatever it is you know are you looking at certain things and
00:37:32.040
saying oh well uh you know this is only that so i'm gonna only you know get by with this much effort
00:37:41.280
you know what i mean right well i knew we could only talk about excellence so so long before you
00:37:46.040
would get into your favorite topic of winning well your favorite sport is winning yeah right i love that
00:37:51.440
i love that quote so apparently what that's your fifth point yeah yeah that is my fifth point uh
00:37:57.640
you know excellence in everything because only the excellent people that had developed excellent
00:38:04.880
habits that had developed excellent character traits that had developed the excellent executions win
00:38:11.260
you can't win without it you've got to be fucking good you've got to be the person who pursues
00:38:16.800
that path you've got to be the person who goes out and does the best that they could possibly do
00:38:22.420
at everything they do and if you're not that person you're gonna lose it's just it's the facts
00:38:29.500
of life it's the facts of the way the world is programmed you've got to be good to win it doesn't
00:38:35.200
matter if it's business doesn't matter if it's life it doesn't matter what the fuck it is if you're not
00:38:39.600
good you're not gonna win and people like to think that you know winning is some sort of like chance
00:38:46.820
thing like oh you know sometimes you win some you lose some no motherfucker if you go out and create
00:38:52.120
the habit of of excellence and the character traits of excellence the character trait of pursuing
00:38:57.000
perfection as opposed to progress you are going to win a million times more than you're going to lose
00:39:03.720
and that's just the way the game is so why is winning important winning is important because it goes back
00:39:10.760
to the first point that we talked about if you don't have confidence if you don't have belief if you
00:39:15.040
don't have anything you're it's impossible for you to feel good about yourself and feeling good is what
00:39:20.400
you're supposed to be you know that's why i have such a problem with the with the way society is
00:39:24.520
right now they everybody thinks they have the right to feel good everybody thinks they have the right
00:39:29.300
to feel great about themselves for like doing the shit that they're supposed to do anyway you know
00:39:34.660
you're not going to feel good about yourself by paying the bills and you know blah blah blah and you
00:39:42.120
know doing all these basic things that you're supposed to do as an adult you're only going to feel good
00:39:46.680
when you go out and do something that is worthy of feeling good and you can have all the psychologists
00:39:51.720
all the you know psychotherapy you want all the books all the rainbows and unicorns and care bear
00:39:58.600
teachers tell us all this shit about how we're supposed to feel great about our lives dude self-esteem
00:40:05.140
self-worth confidence those things are earned assets they come from our ability to go out
00:40:11.260
do something do it well and then feel good about ourselves and if you do less than that if you go
00:40:18.800
out and you cut corners and you go out and try something and fail and you go out and try something and
00:40:23.260
don't give it all you have you're not going to feel good just the way it is no matter how much people
00:40:28.580
tell themselves oh i feel good we know you know everybody knows that in their heart they feel shit
00:40:35.940
the idea that you have to earn self-esteem is so countercultural right now because oh my god i
00:40:42.960
posted that we're entitled to feel good about ourselves and like you should see you should see
00:40:48.580
the comments that were on it it was unbelievable it was like oh so you're saying that in order for some
00:40:53.720
that people don't have the right to feel good because they're not having these material i'm like
00:40:58.940
what's i have to do with material things yeah it could do with anything but you still have to go out and
00:41:04.580
earn it you know and you know what you guys listening right now you don't have the right to feel good
00:41:09.640
you don't have the right to feel confident you don't have the right to have self-worth you only
00:41:16.320
earn those things by going out and doing things the best that you possibly can not what society says oh
00:41:23.100
i'm doing this the best i can no i'm literally mean giving it all your effort giving it all your energy
00:41:28.740
giving it all you have every single day and you know what you're going to do that in the beginning
00:41:34.560
you're still going to fucking fail but you get up you go at it you develop that resilience you develop
00:41:39.220
that persistence and eventually you're going to start to have confidence belief self-worth self-esteem
00:41:45.160
and you're going to feel fucking good about your life but so many people don't feel good so many
00:41:50.200
people don't feel great about their lives because they've bought into this bullshit the society's been
00:41:55.040
telling everybody for the last 30 years which is everybody has the right to feel good no you don't
00:42:00.520
and i don't care what anybody says right you're not entitled to self-esteem fuck no right if you're
00:42:06.100
a piece of shit you're a piece of shit so i do think that some people uh need it spelled out for them a
00:42:11.260
little bit i know we have a lot of young guys uh and girls i'm sure uh who listen to us and say you
00:42:16.260
know andy i want excellence i'm in the process of building it but i'm i'm kind of early on in the stage
00:42:20.860
i mean would what are some of the things that you would tell them in terms of what are just
00:42:24.960
little things that dude i would just take pride in every single thing that everything everything
00:42:28.520
everything like everything yeah everything small like if you see a fucking shopping cart out of the
00:42:33.380
corral and it's not yours go get it and put it in a fucking corral you know if you see uh if you see
00:42:39.320
something out of place put it in place if you see dust wipe the shit up little bitty things that's
00:42:45.140
those little things are more important to developing the habit of pursuing excellence
00:42:50.040
and ultimately being excellent than anything else you know what i mean you should see shit like that
00:42:56.240
like you should see a shopping cart out of its corral and if you pass it up you should feel guilty
00:43:00.820
i do i feel like shit i'm like fuck i'm a piece of shit and that's not even my cart if you get to
00:43:05.520
that point now you're in a situation where you know you've cultivated that habit where you take pride
00:43:12.460
in everything no matter if it's your responsibility or not you know because you're also developing
00:43:16.980
another habit which is take responsibility and accountability no matter what it is and whose fault
00:43:22.180
it is which is an excellent valuable skill to have in any situation whether you're the ceo or the
00:43:28.220
janitor you know so you could start it with the littlest things yeah so before we end uh why don't you
00:43:36.060
recap five points and then i got something i want to close with number one without confidence you can't
00:43:40.220
really stay on course in life you can't persevere in your goals and dreams and you cannot get true
00:43:44.220
confidence unless your life is characterized by excellence number two pursuing excellence protects
00:43:49.440
you from the danger of laziness number three pursuing excellence is going to improve the quality of your
00:43:54.080
social life and really your whole experience of human society four pursuing excellence is going to
00:43:59.140
make you highly resilient when bad stuff happens to you or you're challenged in any way number five
00:44:04.680
excellence is everything because only the excellent win in business and life winning matters and and you
00:44:12.440
know what everybody listening to this wants to make more money everybody listening to this wants to earn
00:44:19.860
more money they want to become wealthy they want they want to have resources or they wouldn't be
00:44:24.740
listening to an entrepreneurial podcast this this habit this character trait this this pursuit of excellence
00:44:33.680
that we've been talking about this is how you become valuable this is how you become somebody who
00:44:40.660
becomes a linchpin or a valuable member of an organization or the leader of a valuable company
00:44:47.120
okay this is how you make money this is how you become wealthy by developing this concept and if you guys
00:44:53.740
don't develop this concept if you don't take it seriously i will go back and listen to this podcast over and
00:44:57.780
over until you really sunk in of how important it is you guys have to become a person of excellence or
00:45:04.660
you're going to become a person of fucking broke and that's just the way it is so that's right and so
00:45:13.280
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00:45:21.180
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00:45:27.460
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00:45:31.820
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00:45:37.300
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00:45:43.500
telling people the way it is and and i think you know we all need to work together to get this message
00:45:47.780
out there so this is a very important point that i don't know if i re-emphasized at the at the
00:45:52.220
beginning but it is very possible because i know i did this like if you have an iphone and you have
00:45:58.860
the iphone or you have the podcast app it's very possible to have like to have clicked on you know the
00:46:05.700
mfceo project and watched frequent episodes and not be subscribed oh yeah i actually found out that i
00:46:12.380
wasn't subscribed most people do that yeah because they don't actually subscribe make a point of like
00:46:16.240
literally going and checking and making sure your subscribe subscribe button's on yeah sorry i
00:46:20.420
didn't mean to no that's cool so guys i appreciate you guys uh we'll be at you on thursday with some
00:46:25.740
thursday thunder until then go out and kick some ass