You Will Do Something Badly Before You're a Badass, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO70
Episode Stats
Summary
You have to learn to be okay with not being good at something. You have to understand that every time you fail, it's an opportunity to grow and become a better at it. You can't be a true winner unless you learn to deal with failure.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
What's up guys, you're listening to the MFCEO Project Thursday Thunder. I'm Andy, I'm your
00:00:14.560
host and I am the motherfucking CEO. Guys, I'm going to keep this short. I'm going to
00:00:19.800
keep it sweet. Here's the deal. You want to know why most people can never get anywhere
00:00:24.560
in life, why most people never live, never experience, never build, never do anything
00:00:31.060
worthwhile in life besides be an average motherfucker and let me know, an average broke
00:00:37.420
motherfucker. You know why? Because most people's egos are so fucking inflated and so fragile
00:00:45.560
that they won't allow people to see them be bad at something. Okay? Let that sink in. You've never
00:00:53.600
done something before. You expect yourself to be awesome at it. You haven't done the
00:00:58.740
work. You haven't put in the time. You haven't put in the study hours. You haven't had the
00:01:04.260
experience but you expect to be good and because you expect to be good but you know you're not
00:01:10.580
going to be good, you don't do anything. Explain that shit to me. Okay? You want to be somebody
00:01:17.580
who succeeds? You want to be somebody who builds something? You want to be somebody who people
00:01:22.540
write fucking books about one day? You are going to have to be okay with being bad at shit for a long
00:01:28.740
fucking time. When I first started in business, I didn't even know what the fuck I was selling.
00:01:33.500
Okay? I remember the first person coming in, they came in for a product that I didn't even, it was
00:01:38.780
called Celltech by a company called Muscletech. They came in, the dude obviously didn't buy it. It
00:01:43.680
wasn't our first sale. He came in and asked me about it. I didn't even know what the fuck it was.
00:01:47.780
Okay? But I didn't care because I was going to figure it out. All right? And that's the
00:01:53.120
mentality you guys have to have. You have to be okay with looking like an idiot for a long
00:01:58.900
fucking time. And a lot of you guys, you'd rather be too cool for school. You'd rather be the cool
00:02:04.380
kids at the fucking high school lunch table than be the person who actually goes out, takes a leap of
00:02:11.600
faith, decides they're going to try something new, and actually becomes an expert at it over time.
00:02:17.840
Guys, you have to be okay not being good at shit. All right? Every valuable fucking lesson that you're
00:02:27.080
going to come across in your life is going to come from you fucking something up, aka failing.
00:02:33.660
All right? And it, you know, I hate failing as much as the next guy. Dude, I probably hold the record for
00:02:39.820
the most broken fucking Nintendo controllers on the face of the earth because I hate losing. And if I ever
00:02:46.060
find the person that wrote fucking Zelda, they're going to get a knuckle sandwich because I could never
00:02:49.840
beat that fucking game. But that's the point, okay? I hate to lose. But the thing is, is that once you
00:02:57.420
understand that every time you lose, it's an opportunity for you to not only learn that lesson,
00:03:03.260
but take it a plus one step. Okay? Listen to what I just said. A plus one step past the lesson,
00:03:10.760
you'll start to appreciate those lessons. You'll start to be okay with not being good at shit.
00:03:17.420
Guys, you don't want to be the guy that we talk about on the podcast who's 37 years old,
00:03:24.540
living in the mom's basement, yelling at her for a fucking hot pocket. Okay? Trolling people on the
00:03:30.940
internet. You don't want to be that guy. And if you don't want to be that guy, you're going to have
00:03:35.560
to understand that losing is a part of ultimately winning. You're going to lose a lot more than you
00:03:41.760
fucking win. And when you win, you're going to, you're going to figure out how to get better on top
00:03:46.520
of it. If you're a true winner, you know, they don't celebrate their wins. True winners take the win
00:03:52.180
and they say, how could I have even gotten better? How could I have ran the score up? How could I have
00:03:56.660
won by twice as many points? So you never really feel like you win and you have to be okay with that.
00:04:02.800
Okay? There's not one thing that I don't look at in my life and say, man, how could I get better at
00:04:07.440
that? How could I win at that? How could I run the score up on that? That's how much I love to win.
00:04:12.800
But I look at every single loss. I've learned to look at every single loss as an opportunity of how to
00:04:19.740
win more. And that's what you need to do too. You don't look at it like, Hey, everybody's going to
00:04:23.280
point and laugh and they might point and laugh. I could fucking tell you a list a mile long of
00:04:28.720
people who have told me, Andy, you still got that little vitamin shop. Andy, what are you trying to
00:04:33.960
be? Tony Robbins, Andy, you know, uh, when are you going to get a real job? You know, those are the
00:04:38.940
same motherfuckers asking me for fucking jobs now. All right. You guys have to understand that if you
00:04:45.100
are willing to be bad at shit, you will have the last laugh on these same people that we're talking
00:04:50.880
about. All right. So quit letting people stand in your way, quit letting you stand in your way and
00:04:56.180
understand that you are going to be bad as shit. You know, you're, you're going to suck. Nobody comes
00:05:03.540
out of the vagina and is a fucking CEO on boss level status. It just doesn't happen. You know,
00:05:11.560
Elon Musk didn't come out of being born and he was Elon Musk. You know, Gary Vaynerchuk didn't
00:05:17.560
become Gary Vaynerchuk when he was fucking born. Those come from learning lessons, putting in the
00:05:22.860
time and not being afraid to be laughed at. All right, guys. So check your fucking ego at the
00:05:28.420
door. If you ever want to be successful, people are going to laugh at you. People are going to
00:05:32.540
fucking point at you. People are going to make fun of you. But if you understand that losing and
00:05:37.440
getting laughed at and all these things, and you understand how to use those things to improve and
00:05:41.960
get better, you're going to have the last fucking laugh.