Tate on Success Secrets
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about my upbringing and how it shaped me into the person I am today, and why I have always been so driven my entire life. I also talk about why I don t want to be an average loser, and how I was never told that I was a genius as a child. And I explain why I've always believed I can do anything I want because of my last name Tate, and the influence of my father, who was a professional chess player and chess player, and a professional kickboxer, and who is now a multi-millionaire, and is one of the most successful people in the world. I also explain why it s so important to be proud of your own last name, because you deserve to be a millionaire because you are a millionaire, and that you deserve a good job and a good education, and it s important to have a good upbringing. And that s why I ve always believed that you can do ANYTHING you want because you re a TAYT, and you can achieve anything you want, because YOU ARE A TATE, and I m a TATE. I m not even joking, I m talking about it. If you don t know who I am, you re not even listening to this podcast because you're not listening to it, you're listening to the right people, you don't even have the right to know what I am talking about, you are not even the right? You're not even getting a proper education, you aren't even getting the education you need to know that you're gonna get a good one? You don t even get an education? You re not getting an education you're just gonna get the right kind of education? You don't get it? I'm not even even getting it? You aren t even getting that education you can get the education that you need, you won't even get a proper one? You won t even be allowed to know the proper education you deserve? And you won t get that? you'll never get an A? You won't get a decent one of an education that s gonna be good enough, you'll just be a good enough? You'll just get the chance to get the minimum standard? and you'll get a basic A? you'll only get the bare standard? You ll just get a minimum standard in your class? You can t get an ass kicking, you can't even be an A+A?
Transcript
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right so I get asked a lot about motivation and people say Tate what motivates you and I find
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that extremely I think that's a stupid question what motivates me because I don't want to be a
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loser like who wants to be a loser I've always wanted to be rich because I know I deserve to
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be rich because I see how many stupid people are rich look at any rapper and have look at any of
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their interviews and see how low their IQ is and these people are millionaires we got a special
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guest in the building Tekashi 69 I'm the hottest artist in the city
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no you're not so if they're a millionaire I definitely deserve to be a millionaire
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so I've always had motivation for the same reason I want to be big and strong and rich I want to be
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all these things because I'm me so I was talking to somebody the other day and they said why are you
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motivated and I said because I don't want to be a loser and I said yeah I understand that but why
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are we are you so uncomfortable with the idea of being average loser and you have to push so hard
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so I guess my typical response wasn't enough for him why are you so motivated don't be a loser okay
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but why don't you want to be a loser so I sat there for a little bit and I thought and I thought what is
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the reason I have always been so driven my entire life and it's obviously to do with my upbringing
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but it's like what element of my upbringing made me into such a militant individual what made me so
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brilliant from a young age I was a professional chess player and then I became a professional
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kickboxer and then I became multimillionaire businessman blah blah blah why have I always
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pushed so hard and I think one of the key elements to it is because I was always extremely proud
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of my last name Tate and the reason for that is in the environment I grew up around whenever the name
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Tate was said people put respect on the name so when I used to go to professional chess tournaments
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with my father who was one of the best chess players in the world people would say oh shit Tate's here
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oh man Tate's here oh who's got Tate who's playing Tate everyone was scared and the name invoked fear
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the name invoked respect automatically just the name Tate every time something was happening to me
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that was difficult or I had a challenge ahead of me etc etc I was motivated with my own last name
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so it's like oh dad I'm worried about this or mom I'm scared about this and they say yeah but you're a
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Tate it's like oh yeah I am scared but I am a Tate so it's okay because I'm I'm a Tate even now even as
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successful as I am most people would look and go oh my look at my child they've done this they've done
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this they've done this I guarantee as a child I outperformed any of you as children and I guarantee
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if you have children I would I outperformed your child this is the reality of I was moved up three
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grades in school I'd run the highest SAT scores in history I was a chess champion age five blah blah
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blah blah so state chess champion in the under 16 year olds at age five the youngest in history in
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fact I remember being five years old and playing a whole bunch of 10 year olds there's four of them on
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a team against me I remember sitting there whooping them all so uh I was a genius child genius adult
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genius whatever whatever but I was never told oh wow you're so smart for me it was just normal
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they're like yeah you're a Tate oh they moved me up three grades in school well duh you're a Tate
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of course what the fuck else are you gonna do so for me achieving things was always very very normal
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and it was always very very easy in my mind it was always just like well duh of course I achieve
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things of course I'll be world champion of course I'll be a millionaire of course I can do anything I
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want and I've always believed I can do anything I want because I'm a Tate and for me achieving things is
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very very easy and I was never overtly praised and my parents were never surprised by my success
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a lot of parents are very very surprised by the success of their children I'll see it they go he's
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one of the best in his class and I'm like so he's he's one of the best so he's not even the best
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of a group of random 30 random average losers he's not top one percent in the world or anything
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and you're so proud of him and you're gonna sit there and go wow great job great job and that's
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why he's never gonna become shit how I'd be embarrassed to have a child which wasn't top
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one percent in the in in the country let alone his shitty class I'd be embarrassed to brag about
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the things you brag about they're bare minimum acceptable standard if I had a child and he wasn't
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one of the best in his class get an ass kicking that's the bare minimum acceptable standard and
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you're proud of it so one of the main reasons I guess I've always been so motivated one of the
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reasons my life is so fantastic because the truth is I am one of those individuals that have all
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I was born with a genetic gift I'm tall caramel sexiest fuck rich I can fight I'm a genius I got
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it all and one of the reasons I've taken such marvelous advantage of my genetic gifts and use
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them so beautifully and exploited them it's because I was always always understanding that one my name
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means something and I have to live up to my name and I have to succeed because when people say the
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name Tate it needs to mean something so just like in the chess halls when the name Tate was said now in
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the kickboxing world of the name Tate is said people know it means something you guys are here if you
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follow me and you watch my whole life etc etc etc if anyone else knows who I am you say the name Tate
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people know they know what it means something I've made it mean something one and two because my
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successes were always seen as absolutely not really normal and it was absolutely not really normal for me to
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succeed beyond all measurable doubt on any expectations the average expectations put on the
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average child or the average person or the average man I have always blown out of the water without
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even trying it's just been easy for me because this is how I've always been as an individual so I guess
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the moral of the story is I was raised for success and if you're sitting there and you're thinking oh I
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want to be more motivated only more motivated you have two things to do one stop being proud of your
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achievements which are extremely minor oh look what I did today what'd you do is actually
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impressive genuinely the answer is no one and I'm saying that I mean like because even me in my life
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I can have if I win a kickboxing world title okay I'll be proud of myself outside of that
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well I bought oh I bought a new car who cares all the things you're so happy about all the things you
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brag about it's bullshit things it's things everyone does every day it's not important one and two
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you need to make your name important you need to make your name important you have to find a way
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to invoke a level of respect on your name the only way you do that the only way you can possibly do
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that is by achieving things that others cannot do