Valuetainment - February 24, 2020


Episode 433： What Makes Connor McGregor’s Victory Different


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

188.3355

Word Count

1,113

Sentence Count

103


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So I want to give a shout out to Conor McGregor because I think there's something all of us
00:00:25.740 can learn from what Conor just did this last week. That is very, very, very difficult to do. Very difficult to do. And Conor did it. Let me explain to you what it is.
00:00:35.820 So Conor fights. Cowboy Surround this past week. Commanding win. 40 seconds. I'm a fan of Cowboy, but Conor came out. It was done deal. And right off the bat with the shoulder thing that he did. A bunch of memes. Snoop Dogg had the best meme. All these things go crazy. And everyone's talking Conor McGregor.
00:00:53.980 But people are not paying attention to the biggest thing. Let me explain to you what's the biggest thing. Here's a guy that went from zero to made $110 million in a year in 2018.
00:01:04.960 Then he comes out with a brand called Proper 12 that's now a UFC MMA sponsor. And he's taking pictures with it. And everybody around the world is buying this Proper 12 now whiskey.
00:01:15.840 He's killing it. He's on top of the world. Every talk show wants him. Every TV show wants him. Everybody wants him to do a cameo. Everybody wants him to say a couple words. Every ESPN show. Everybody wants this guy.
00:01:27.360 20, 30 million followers. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. All of these people. And he still shows up to win the fight. Still shows up to win the fight.
00:01:37.520 And in the post-game interview, I'm more of a fan of a post-game interview than the fight. Matter of fact, the post-game interview was better than the fight.
00:01:43.280 Let me explain to you why. In the post-game interview, the guy asked him a question. He says, so, you know, where are you at right now?
00:01:48.600 What happened with the last fight against Khabib? You know, what would you say about what happened with your last fight against Khabib?
00:01:52.360 He says, you know, I disrespected my team with the last fight with Khabib. What do you mean you disrespected?
00:01:58.160 Here's what I mean by I disrespected. He says, my training camp, everybody that I had hired, I'd go in and train for an hour.
00:02:06.300 They wouldn't see me for three days. These are people that are trying to prepare me to win and go up against Khabib that's undefeated.
00:02:13.960 And I disrespected them. I disrespected my training camp. What do you mean you disrespected your training camp?
00:02:21.100 Like, you're worth $100 million. The people you're hiring to work with you, they're not worth that kind of money.
00:02:25.460 This guy's publicly saying, I insulted my team. Who wouldn't want to work with a guy like this at this phase, right?
00:02:31.900 But the biggest thing that's so obvious to take away from this guy's fight is to know that you have this level of victory.
00:02:38.240 You're on top of the world. You have money in the bank. You got the cars.
00:02:41.120 Everybody around the world knows who you are. And you still come and put on a show.
00:02:44.400 And you still want to come back up. Whether it's fighting Usman, whether it's Masvidal, whether it's Kobe Covington.
00:02:50.120 You're coming up to want to fight those guys. After you got paid more money than every MMA fighter combined.
00:02:56.000 You got paid more money than all these guys combined pretty much. And you still are that hungry.
00:03:00.960 Here's a question for you. To those of you guys that are winning and starting to make money.
00:03:05.580 You know what's the first thing that goes when you make money?
00:03:07.260 Training, training, discipline, gratitude, reading, improving, getting better, blind spots.
00:03:13.540 All of that goes. All of those become your blind spots because you think you're on top of the world.
00:03:17.340 You think you're invincible. I watched a documentary with Aaron Hernandez.
00:03:20.940 In the documentary, Bill Belichick, they show a clip of him talking to his team.
00:03:25.180 He says, all it takes is one mistake. One mistake can cost us a championship.
00:03:30.120 One mistake will cost us a championship. All it takes is one mistake.
00:03:34.960 When you're coming up, I'm not talking about calls, all this other stuff.
00:03:38.900 But when you get to the top and you start experiencing some success.
00:03:42.140 Oh, Pat, let me tell you, I'm going to make a million dollar year income.
00:03:44.620 I'm going to build the next billion dollar company. I'm going to build the next $10 million company.
00:03:48.000 And you're making $100,000 a year right now.
00:03:49.900 You don't even know what it is to handle a half a million dollar year income.
00:03:52.380 What are you going to do when you can make $500,000 a year income?
00:03:54.400 You can go to any restaurant, any place, drive a nice car, live in a nice place.
00:03:58.120 What are you going to do to get out of bed when you're making a million dollar year income?
00:04:00.480 Or $2 million, or $5 million, or $10 million, or $10 million of your income?
00:04:02.820 Or $108 million a year?
00:04:06.180 How do you get out of bed? That's what Conor did.
00:04:08.340 That's why I respect a guy like that.
00:04:10.700 That after he made the $100 million, after he's got proper 12, after all these accolades,
00:04:15.700 after being well-known worldwide, he still comes out the gate and shows a fight.
00:04:19.620 Now, no one knows what he's going to do next.
00:04:21.680 For all I know, he can go and throw another thing through a bus and fight another person
00:04:26.280 and get arrested and get 6 to 12 months.
00:04:28.280 But I respect the fact that he sounds like he's being very transparent with the mistakes he's made
00:04:32.940 that he wants to move.
00:04:34.020 Something all of us can learn from.
00:04:36.940 It just so happens, Conor was able to do it recently with a big victory, public victory,
00:04:42.740 and a very humble way of him taking it.
00:04:46.820 And we'll see what's going to happen next.
00:04:47.940 But I think everybody can learn from that because when money comes, when success comes,
00:04:51.420 when fame comes, that's when our character really gets tested.
00:04:54.600 Having said that, hope you have a killer week this week.
00:04:58.580 Thanks, everybody, for listening.
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00:05:20.000 With that being said, have a great day today.
00:05:21.800 Take care, everybody.
00:05:22.540 Bye-bye.
00:05:24.600 Bye-bye.