Episode 261： 10 Laws On How To Recreate Yourself
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Summary
In this episode, Patrick talks about the 10 Steps to Recreating Yourself and how you can go from being a normal kid with a 1.8 GPA to being a millionaire with a 4.0 GPA and a reputation as being one of the most successful people in the world.
Transcript
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30 seconds. One time for the underdog. Ignition sequence start.
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Let me see you put them up. Reach the sky, touch the stars up above.
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Cause it's one time for the underdog. One time for the underdog.
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I'm Patrick, I'm your host of Value Team. And today I'm going to talk to you about 10 laws on how to recreate yourself.
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I wrote a book a few years ago called 25 Laws for Doing the Impossible.
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And when I wrote this book, I mean it sold 150,000 copies right now. It's in five different languages.
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Polish, Russian, Chinese, English, and I'm missing one. Romanian. That's right. Romanian, right?
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And it did very well. We were not expecting it for it to do this well. It did very well.
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You know, most readers are from the States. Then it's Russia. Then it's Australia.
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It just started growing and growing and growing.
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But I was having a conversation just the other day and somebody was asking me,
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Pat, if everybody keeps saying when you were in high school, you grew up a regular kid from broken up family,
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1.8 GPA, and you didn't have any money in your family, and your father was this, and your mother was here.
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How did you become and how did you change yourself, right?
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So when I wrote this book, 25 Laws for Doing the Impossible, it's broken down into three different steps, right?
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First step is how to recreate yourself, how to identify your cause, then go make history.
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So I want to focus and emphasize today mainly on the first step, which is how to recreate yourself.
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Because everybody who all of a sudden goes from having a past that no one thought that person was going to be who they were going to be,
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there's a point, there's an epiphany moment where they change.
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And there's a very consistent formula on how to do that.
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I'm going to share 10 of the laws on this video with you, and then from there, if you want to read the rest,
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I'll send you where you can go get the book and read it for yourself.
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How does one go from being recognized as having this kind of a reputation to completely changing their reputation?
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First thing you've got to do is you've got to set a goal that seems very difficult to you.
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It seems something that everybody was, there's no way in the world you could do this.
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You've got to go do this thing that seems extremely impossible.
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You've got to go actually make that thing become a reality.
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It could be very small little things initially.
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It could be, I want to go out there and make $50,000 in a year.
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It could be, I want to go out there and, you know, become number one in the company.
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I want to go out there and become a vice president with a company, marketing director.
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I want to go out there and do, it's got to be extremely difficult.
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So every time you go out there and do something that seems difficult to you, what ends up happening is your mind and your heart start believing in the words that's coming out of your mouth.
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When your mind and your heart believes in the words that's coming out of your mouth and you continuously then set another goal that you do that seems impossible, then eventually whatever comes out of here, these two trust.
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So your credibility on what comes out of here is very high here.
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You don't recognize it anymore because you're changing you.
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So the ten laws of a first side of recreating yourself.
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I've been told so many times, I've sold stocks, I've sold mutual funds, I sell insurance, we do very well business-wise.
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But I've been told to buy so many different things.
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Nothing in the world has given me better returns than me investing into one thing.
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All these books that are here, all the books on my house, all the seminars I've been to, all the places I've traveled to, all the places I want to just meet one person to have a one-hour meeting or have breakfast with this person to learn one thing about them.
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Investing in my identity is by far the most important law you've got to keep in mind.
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So law number one is invest into your identity.
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If you don't let anybody in, nobody can direct you because nobody really knows where you're at with your life.
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You have to have a handful of people that you let in who can give you feedback.
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But you've got to let the right mentors, the right influence, get in that have influence over you.
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Let me explain to you what that means, your credibility score.
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You know we all, when you're buying a house or you're buying a car or whatever you're doing, they're going to check your FICA score to see how good it is and they give you a loan.
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Your credibility score is just as important, if not more important than anything else.
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If you say what you're going to do and you actually do what you say you're going to do, your credibility score goes higher.
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When you say you're going to do something, you actually do it.
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When your credibility score goes high because what you say is what you do, more people want to be in business with you.
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Because it's very important for business, for a business partner, for somebody you're doing business with, to keep their word.
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If you keep saying what you're going to do and you don't do it, your credibility score is low.
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Not only do you not like yourself, not only does your friends and family not trust you, nobody wants to do business with you.
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You've got to increase your credibility score in order to get the right help around you as well.
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So often I meet people, spoke to one of the guys, I think he's one of the most talented guys I've ever met in my life.
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I said, what a waste of a mind it is you've been given that your mind is that smart but you refuse to read books.
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Can you imagine that brain, that computer, it's like having the most incredible computer that you never ever use or do anything with the software that's in this computer.
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What a waste to have such a platform to not do anything with.
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You've got to strengthen your greatest weapon which is this.
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Law number five, challenge your way of thinking.
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You've got to constantly challenge your way of thinking.
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Here's a question I always ask myself and I ask other people as well.
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If your way of thinking worked, would you be in the position you're in today?
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So if your way of thinking doesn't work, you need to find a new way of thinking to get the results that you want because there is a problem with your way of thinking in any specific area of your life.
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If your way of thinking doesn't work, you've got to challenge your way of thinking.
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Most of us have a challenge with that because we don't like to be wrong.
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We don't like to say we're mediocre or not there yet or average.
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But you've got to challenge your way of thinking.
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If you're willing to challenge your way of thinking, you're putting yourself in a position to get into new heights.
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Your why is very simple but the why, generally a lot of people say things like, oh, I want to be financially free.
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I want to do, believe it or not, that's all a byproduct.
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I have black cars and all this stuff and I travel.
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I'm in Paris last couple weeks and I go to New Orleans and we're all, we're this way.
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But that's purely a byproduct of the real why of my life, which was many years ago when I remember seeing my father who had a heart attack and he went to the hospital, UCLA Medical Center, and I saw this man lose 40 pounds within a week.
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And I'm sitting there at the hospital fighting every single nurse.
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This is never, my dad's not going to die from stress caused by financial issues.
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If my dad's going to pass away, it's going to be because of natural costs.
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The cars, the money, the financial freedom came of a byproduct of real strong whys that
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For the person that doesn't believe you could do it, for you to look at that person in the
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For your family, your mom and dad to tell you they're proud of you.
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For you to do something that no one thought was ever possible.
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It's got to be the real deep why that you write down.
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Quite frankly, that's a very controversial message today because, you know, you got books
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like 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss who became a multi-millionaire by writing a book called
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4-Hour Workweek because, great, it's like these commercials late at night.
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He's very smart, by the way, to write a book like that because everybody wants to work less.
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So it's like saying how to lose 50 pounds in two weeks.
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Everybody would read the book, oh, this is so great.
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And there is no such thing as how to lose 50 pounds.
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Those drinks, you drink this drink, you lose 15 pounds in one night.
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It doesn't happen for those that want to play in the big leagues.
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I don't know anybody that has a 4-Hour Workweek that's the top achiever.
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I don't know any single person in Hollywood and business, I don't know them, who compete
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4-Hour Workweek is for somebody who wants to be on a low radar, nobody paying attention
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You're just getting by, making enough money to pay your bills, and you're traveling.
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That's what the book is about, okay, if you read it.
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I'm talking about working, the way we worked in 1880.
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The average American today works on a late 30 hours a week, 35, 36, to high 36, 37 hours
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Back in the 1880s, we used to work 69 hours a week, 50, 69, 67 hours a week.
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I love what Gary Vaynerchuk says when he's hustling.
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He talks about hustling, waking up early in the morning, going this, going that.
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You see a video like Grant Cardone, who is obsessed with working.
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You see Jordan's work ethic, Kobe's work ethic, you know, these guys that wake up in
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the morning and go at night, dark, dark, not up, you know, sun, sun, let me come home.
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So if you want to do the impossible, then you want to recreate yourself, and you want to
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I had a friend that said, you know, I made a plan that by 30 years old, I wanted to take
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Why do I want to take Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays off and only work four days a week?
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And those who do the impossible typically work.
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When you talk about Edison, Edison's wife would say he would come to the house.
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We'd come back, take 20 minute naps, go back to work, come back 20 minute naps, 15
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I'm sitting here with a candle right now if you only work 15 hours a week.
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Thank God he had strong work ethic and he wasn't living in an economic time like this
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where the PC police is going around saying that's not politically correct.
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You can't listen to any of the media that tells you about work and Huffington Post article.
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It's not healthy to work more than 40 hours a week written because viewers are going to
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You go get advice from performers who are playing in that game, not the other guys that
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want to make sure you read a four-hour work week book or all this other crap.
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Anyways, I get upset when I read that stuff because it's a bunch of gibberish that fools
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people and then they wonder how come they don't get the results.
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Law number eight is elevate your imagination to a whole new level.
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Let me explain to you what I mean by elevate your imagination to a whole new level.
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You're in charge of your imagination just so you know that.
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So if I'm going to sleep at night with the thought of, oh my God, my bills, promotion,
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that guy, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear.
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But what if you go to imagination and sleep like this?
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Man, what if that one day I'm giving a talk in front of 50,000 people and there's an audience
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there and my wife's and kids are sitting in my house, my mom's, I'm giving this talk
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That's the stuff that you got to take control of your imagination.
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If you let it loose, it'll really mess with you.
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When you read the book, all these things are obviously more specific.
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I was speaking to somebody named Bobby the other day.
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He says, my Saturday mornings and early in the morning when I wake up, I watch four hours
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On Sundays, I watch this many hours of YouTube videos on how to do this and I listen to audio.
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You know, my English isn't that good, but I like listening to audios because I understand
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He's curious for information because it's out there accessible to everybody, especially
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No one could say, I don't know how this thing works.
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All our staff that I have here working with us, right?
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We had a guy that came and started working with us.
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Mario, how much experience have you had in the past with social media?
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When you got started with us, how much Twitter experience did you have?
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He would sit here, listen and watch things on how it would work and go research and now
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He's now learned how social media works, but he was curious to learn.
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It goes back to the first thing I said when I opened up the video, which is write down something
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you want to do that seems impossible and go hit it and break away from the old you.
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Just because your friends, family, or your cousins have created a reputation about you
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that all your friends say, that doesn't mean that's true.
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Just because in high school you were a knucklehead kid or you hung around with people so everybody
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called you the chump or the loser or the smarty, this guy didn't get good grades or whatever,
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that's their identity they're creating for you.
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You choose the identity that's going to be with you, for you.
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Most people allow other people to create their identity.
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You've got to take responsibility of it and let the right ones in who can elevate and
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challenge you and push you and say, you're too cocky, you're too arrogant.
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Why do you tell me you want to win and you still don't go out there and read?
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Then don't tell me you need people like that in your life.
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And the next thing you know is saying, this person believes in me.
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Once you have the new identity, then you've got to go identify your cause and you've got to go make history.
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But ultimately, make a decision to recreate yourself and get after your dreams and leave a legacy for the people that love you and for the people that matter the most to you.
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