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what does it mean
to give 100 effort on something
is it possible to say with absolute
certainty that you couldn’t have done
better
how do you know that you couldn’t have
run one second
faster done one more rep scored one
point
higher how do you know that there wasn’t
more in you
to give
in terms of human potential there is no
such thing as a limit
it’s a fabricated completely negative
debilitating idea so why why in a
million years would you put obstacles in
front of yourself
that aren’t there
in reality you can always be one step
better
one step further than you are now that’s
a fact
and simply knowing that knocks down
walls it opens doors for you to make
moves
to progress
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warren buffett has a great quote on
maximizing effort he’s speaking from a
business standpoint
and he says the one thing that is
absolutely sure to kill a business
is complacency being comfortable with
where you are
thinking that your current effort is
sufficient that it’s enough
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it isn’t and if you get comfortable
someone willing to pay a steeper price
will come along
and take what’s yours and there is
always someone working hard
to do just that
when you think about your dreams what
you’re striving toward
i’m sure you have some plan some routine
day in and day out to get there
to make it happen maybe you’re moving
forward
maybe you’re in a rough spot but
regardless of your situation
there are positively untapped
opportunities to move
quicker to be better and these
opportunities
they just sit there and they’ll sit
there for an eternity
if you don’t recognize them and utilize
them
i’ll use the example of an athlete
when you break it down an athlete’s work
is comprised of physical training
you have the mental component their diet
and to say you want to be the best is
one thing but if you can’t strip down
your goal
into these simple components and ask
yourself how can i be a little better
in each area you know you won’t grow to
the level you’re capable of
you won’t be the elite athlete you’re
missing the key ingredients
to success
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even sitting on the couch watching tv
you know it’s a normal thing we all do
it you unwind you relax for a few
minutes
but think about taking that half hour
and reallocating it and instead sending
three emails to people you know who have
been successful in your field whether
you know them or not
know who have done what you’re trying to
do see if you can connect have a
valuable conversation
maybe it results in nothing maybe it
creates a relationship that changes your
life
who knows but i can tell you for damn
sure that the tv will not
do that and this is an arbitrary example
but i think it’s an important one
because it shows that if you
truly want something you’ll use every
opportunity
to get better even the little ones
because every second is a game changer
always be asking yourself what can you
be doing differently
what can you be doing better never be
content with where you are
be analytical be searching for the next
step
because there is always a next step
and realizing this is just the beginning
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so you’re stepping onto a rocket ship
leaving planet earth and you have one
message to give to the world before you
take off
what is it for me
it’s an easy one it’s that life
is not as serious as we make it out to
be
it’s the most important thing i’ve
learned and perhaps the simplicity of
that message might make people
a little uneasy or take them by surprise
right how exactly is it helpful
well i’ll explain waking up every day
is not an obligation or requirement
it’s not another test or make or break
audition to impress those around you
it’s a gift it’s a challenge it’s
something to be
explored if the odds of being alive
living breathing or one in 400 trillion
you’ve won you have as you sit
or stand right now already done the
miraculous
so why not cash in why not live
push boundaries to live
scared to play safe or do nothing with
your life is like winning the lottery
and keeping that bag full of cash under
your bed for the rest of your life
because you’re scared of what could
happen to it it defeats the purpose
entirely
and i’m not exaggerating this mentality
has changed my life if i lose
who cares if people laugh who cares if i
have to swallow my pride and be
broke for a few years who cares if i’m
the unsure one the one who doesn’t know
what the immediate future looks like
fine
who cares i’ll take the upside i’ll take
the
fun the hard work and the adventure i
talk about this all the time i’ll
never forget walking into this bar with
my friends six years ago now
i just left my job and i remember i’m
i’m talking to this girl at the bar
story time here and uh she asks me what
i do for a living
because of course she does and you know
i tell her i just left my job i got this
really cool idea for a youtube channel i
think it’s going to be incredible and
i’ll never forget how fast that convo
shut down right blink and
she’d walked away and i thought you know
what this is perfect i’m going to
remember this probably for the rest
of my life why because it’s a symbol
it’s a sign that the immediate is what
stops us from the best things down the
road leaving my job
as as hard as that maybe one or two year
stretch was
was the best thing i’ve ever done i am
living
exponentially better than i was before i
had the courage to make that move
see if life is about not screwing up
then yes i’m still in that cubicle
getting yelled at for including too much
color in my powerpoint presentations
but that’s not what life is life is
opportunity not hiding so that you don’t
lose
no it’s about making something where you
are with what you
have and my friends there is so much out
there there is a wind on the other side
of
every door you walk through even when
it’s hard to see
right now is perfect time to be talking
about this a little crazy coronavirus
has people being quarantined everyone
freaking out
guys take a step back and find the
opportunity
i just read the other day shakespeare
wrote king lair when he was being
quarantined because of the plague
there is always a win use
the time find solutions maybe you’ve
always wanted to start a business
great take a small step create the
business page on facebook do something
small get the ball rolling
see when life is a game you’re finding
ways to win
why do all these entrepreneurs talk
about the hardship they’ve encountered
before they found success
because they knew that losses wouldn’t
define them but in life just like in a
game you win
and you lose but what happens is through
repetition you get
better and better and the winds start
accumulating becoming more substantial
and consistent
see most decisions and let’s say worst
case scenario you take the leap and
things implode let’s just be dramatic
for a second
everything goes wrong loss loss loss
loss the reality is
99 of your decisions the reversible
if you don’t get the intended result you
can backpedal and adjust
you know what’s irreversible though
inaction you know what you
can’t improve upon steps you’ve never
taken
you can’t be propelled by dreams that
are hanging out in your head
living scared is looking at yourself in
the mirror and saying i hope nothing
goes wrong today
living fully is looking in the mirror
and saying i’m going to
make something significant today i’m
going to take risks i’m going to find
solutions i’m going to propel myself
forward so that as i make my way onto
this rocket ship would be my message
stop playing to avoid losing and start
playing to win life is not
serious it’s not a standardized test
it’s a blank page waiting for a story
and stories are written by the bold the
risk takers the ones who stop
wishing and go out and make things
happen
wrong actions can be corrected improved
upon
but life through a lens of scarcity is a
sealed
faith so how about living like this
is the only life you have like each day
is a metaphorical currency
that you can’t take with you to your
grave it must be spent it must be
cherished
and utilized fully
so here’s to not only dreaming but
finding the courage to delve headfirst
into a journey
so great that no stone is left unturned
no day is without the magic of your
creation because if life is serious
it is a serious opportunity
to live fully and nothing
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life is the manifestation of stories
stories we tell ourselves about the
world and our place
within it rules that we’ve constructed
and we respect we adhere to
they dictate the outcomes we get they
become our
reality because to establish a parameter
means at some point there’s a line that
we don’t cross
right and there are obvious lines that
we point to and we say no thanks
for example our values right i won’t do
x
because well it will hurt someone i love
or legal parameters i won’t do why
because i know the repercussions they’re
too much it’s not in my self-interest
and these are obvious these are talked
about we’re aware
of these stopping points but i want to
talk about a different set of rules
the stories we’re writing without
realizing we’re doing it
how we think we’re running a sprint
but i have no idea that there’s heavy
weight on our shoulders holding us down
and
you can’t take that weight off if you
don’t know it’s there
and this all came to me a few months ago
i was in la for the weekend
having lunch with some incredible
entrepreneurs they’ve done some amazing
things
one of them sold a dating app for
hundreds of millions of dollars another
one a healthcare company another one had
a very successful
food distributing business and i’m
sitting there kind of blown away
and my priority was to listen not run my
mouth or fabricate or
impress but to simply observe what
creates this type of result
i was listening to to alex mayer who
created zeus
talk about his upbringing right he came
to the u.s as an immigrant
from iran and worked his way up from
nothing
it’s not like these folks were given the
world they took it
and it took me about three minutes to
find a commonality in their world view
to me it couldn’t be more evident it was
impossible to miss
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they don’t look at life how i do
or at least how i did see the story
i told revolved around my parameters
sure i had moments of boldness i pushed
myself i worked hard
but i looked at life in terms of what it
would allow
here’s how things are okay how can i
stretch
that but that’s like repainting or
adding onto a house that was already
built right there’s only
so much flexibility so much you can do
with that
but these guys are going around the
table talking like little kids on
christmas are you talking about life
like it’s
a game talking about opportunity like
it’s an
apple waiting to be picked from a tree
right outside
there was no what will the world allow
it was with the smile anticipation and
self-belief
what can i make
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and alex who i mentioned earlier sold
zeus right created menser box and he
he loves beef eats it all the time right
and so
it’s become his next entrepreneurial
venture a healthy beef stick company
and every thought seems to revolve
around that
how can he take something he loves and
share it with the world his imagination
is now driving his thought process
which drives his action not parameters
not someone else’s reality but
possibility see i left the table
with this feeling i’ve never really had
before it’s like someone tapped me on
the shoulder and reminded me
of the freedom contained in every single
step
but not flexibility but freedom
like a weight had been lifted off of my
shoulders
who cares if you mess up who cares
if you lose who cares that’s part of
this game we’re playing
a game where reality isn’t an obligation
to be lived it’s an opportunity to be
explored
it’s not about what you don’t have it’s
being grateful for everything that
brought you
right now because right now is a
perpetual launching pad
you know growth is learning and that
afternoon i learned to take
life way less seriously
to enjoy it to let imagination drive
every step because the difference is
some of us
build because we don’t want to lose we
don’t want to succumb to
fear and not meeting our potential right
we fear being inadequate falling
short we see obstacles
some of us we build to capture the
beauty the excitement
that makes the difference
and look i’m not presenting you
empirical data i don’t have all the
answers but i’m willing to bet that
years from now looking back
that simple understanding will have
played a substantial role in whatever
comes next
the rules changed
and so did the path
let’s not become so focused on each
footstep
that we lose sight of where they’re
collectively taking us
what are you building why are you here
to play by someone else’s rules or to
transform yourself
and by default the world around you
see reality is fluid it’s malleable
and the beauty is in that process of
creating
a ship leaving the harbor has infinite
possibility
unlimited potential and that gives it
its power there’s no right turn or
wrong turn the only way to lose is to
stand
still to think that horizon in the
distance is too
far or not for you see a harbor is not
a stopping point it’s a beginning
so take control over that world push it
test it see what it has to offer throw
your interest
and your curiosities against the wall
see what sticks see what ignites
your soul test the universe because life
it rewards the bold those courageous
enough
to step outside their front door and not
follow
but design those who know things are the
way they are
simply because others before them had
the courage to make
it so well now it’s your turn
you defeated the 1 in 400 trillion odds
stacked against your birth
you navigated through your low points
you’ve done enough
to get to this very moment this
instant for the mistakes that brought
you here
will become the wisdom that leads you
forward
that takes you to places you never
thought
possible then where exactly that is
is entirely up to you
but like i said upstairs has been an
amazing trip so
last day and uh gonna make a count
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there have been times in my life when
i’ve been down
i’ve been out i’ve been afraid i’ve
looked
up at the road ahead and been completely
unsure and i can say first hand when
you’re going through a situation like
this
that it essentially consumes you
right it’s all you see it’s all you
think about to the point where
the good stuff the opportunity all
around
you it becomes transparent
you see right through it
it’s the negative it’s misfortune for a
period of time that becomes your
narrative
becomes the story
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what if this is forever what if i’m not
as good as
i wanna be or as they are what if things
don’t work
out never mind the fact that
you’ve been here before and you’ve
battled back
never mind how far you’ve come no that
takes a back seat
to the discomfort that we feel right now
and that’s the irrationality
of the human mind we forget
we forget that the lows create the highs
that temporary isn’t forever that you
can’t
stand with any type of authority
if you’ve never before fallen
accomplishing anything is never
just walking up and reaching a goal
it’s about getting back up over
and over again taking the bad breaks in
stride
and seeing the losses for what they are
necessary
what if i told you that the difficult
times
weren’t just manageable they were what
you needed
those moments when you felt helpless
were a bridge to something
better a demonstration of just how
capable
you are and how strong you can be
feeling lost feeling defeated sure it’s
unsettling
it’s also a reminder that you are
exactly where you need to be
in one form or another your struggle
becomes
your answer
life isn’t always calm seas
and sunny skies but if you let it it
will teach you to weather
any storm to come out on top
never lose sight of the opportunity it’s
there hiding behind the struggle
immersed in the ups and downs
and when you know that you will not let
yourself stay down
that you’ll get up struggle becomes a
building block not a weight
around the ankles
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with each stumble you become taller
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with each misstep you step forward
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the problem will never be tough times it
will be refusing to find that next level
for fear of their materialization
regret is a choice
and for those who refuse to stay down
it will be a choice that they’ll never
know
be loved or be hated but never
simply tolerated
in life you can live to chase
opportunity or you can live to avoid
failure and there are two very different
things
rather than pursue we often avoid we
avoid
failure we avoid criticism we don’t want
to ruffle feathers or disrupt
no we choose to simply exist
never condemned but never extraordinary
just
tolerate
and it’s an interesting dilemma because
the best
things exist on the extremes
life’s fringes
that’s where you find your accolades
your accomplishments that’s what
we celebrate it’s where you need to be
and you get there not by worrying about
what everyone around you
thinks but by taking your strength
your unique self holding on
and pressing the pedal to the floor
going all
in and yeah that means suddenly my
friend
you are exposed you are vulnerable you
are now
out there it means those who don’t have
the courage to chase their dreams they
will find you threatening
and they will let you know
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but it also means that the shackles are
off
the door is open the light is green and
you can
build from the ground up you can build
the life you
want the finish line has now become
more visible than the prospect of
falling along the way
and you’ve granted yourself permission
to run
through it sure some will love you
for these accomplishments some will hate
you for these accomplishments but let me
reiterate
the word accomplishment
because when you live to be invisible
it’s a term that rarely presents itself
i promise life
it rewards the bold those who are
bold in their beliefs bold in their
actions their dreams and their pursuits
they are not for anyone but you and
years later when you look in the mirror
you’ll know that you gave every single
thing you had to a life that meant
something to you
yes hated sure
but merely tolerated
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no
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there’s a saying that just because you
spent a long time making a mistake
doesn’t mean you need to continue making
it
there’s an incredible advantage in life
for those who can separate
past and future who can recognize sunk
costs and walk away walk away from the
past move on
to new things but here’s the challenge
right like so many things our instinct
is to
preserve it’s yeah but i’ve invested so
many
years i’ve spent x amount of dollars and
maybe i don’t like where i’m at but look
how long it’s taken me to get here
well here’s the reality that time is
gone
that money is not coming back no matter
what you do or what direction you take
from here on
out there’s no reason to think
you have to maintain the same trajectory
or hold on to a specific
identity or pattern of behavior
yesterday
isn’t the focal point here the goal is
simpler
what matters now and how will you get
there now
you’ve grown you’ve evolved you’ve
changed and your targets have shifted
so why shouldn’t you
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the idea of sunk costs is so important
because it’s essentially realizing that
you’re not
indebted to the resources you’ve spent
or exhausted there’s no need to be a
slave
to previous decisions that you’ve made
no just chalk it up
as an integral step in your learning
process and aspect
of growth and move forward to what
matters to what you care about
if that seems obvious i challenge you to
think about the decisions you’ve made
over the last year and i
guarantee you you’ve let factors affect
your decision-making that are irrelevant
to your goals
because we feel this camaraderie with
yesterday like there’s a debt to be
paid but man life is too short
to run in place if it’s not pushing you
forward
drop it if it’s not what you need forget
it
in other words don’t be one of those
people that wakes up
and makes the same mistake every single
day because you’ve spent a long time
making it see reality only exists in
your head
and that’s why it’s beautiful you can
unlock the cell door and walk
out don’t lose
sight of the greatest gift you have
the new beginning that lives in every
second where you can take a turn
you’ve never taken before remove the
mask and play a role
you’ve never played let that sense of
excitement
pull you to new things let go
of what you can’t change then pursue
what you
can forget the time spent
think of now where can you invest now
your surroundings didn’t magically
arrive you
chose them and you can just as easily
take that wheel
and leave simple formula what is best
for you
and how do you get there not where you
feel obligated to be or expected to be
or pressured to be
where do you need to be everything
else is noise everything else is a rope
keeping your ship on shore and you are
not confined to that
harbor or yesterday’s destination you’re
built to face the horizon follow your
curiosity into the sunset
you don’t make decisions based on
yesterday’s story
you sculpt it with tomorrow’s
possibility
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i want to talk about a myth and it’s
it’s a myth it’s an idea that’s
commonplace in our lives and it’s
rooted in a lot of the decisions we make
as well as the actions that we
do not take
it’s this idea of certainty
of a formula something that’s already
out there that will get you from point a
to point b
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see breaking it down further there are
two things you need to know about
certainty one is that it’s an idea
derived from fiction there’s no way of
knowing exactly what the top of the
mountain will look like
and waiting for that to materialize
to have that crystal clear step-by-step
formula it creates stagnation
we don’t have perfection so we don’t
move
it’s one of those things where you wait
and days turn to days and more days and
weeks and months and years
and eventually regret why because we
were not
certain and what do we do
see this leads to the second piece
we study everything right we live in a
time where we have access to
unlimited resources and it’s this
incredible
thing right we can study the
the lebron james the jeff bezos the gary
vaynerchuks of the world we can see
exactly what they did we can see how
they think how they approach
problems how they get to solutions
and on one hand it’s an unbelievable
benefit
knowledge is power but on the other hand
there’s a cost and this cost can be
extremely detrimental because it
mitigates
the most important thing in your life
and that is your unique
self what makes you
valuable what do you bring to the world
what makes
you tick and i’ll tell you right now you
do not
find that by studying how jeff bezos
started amazon and attempting to
duplicate it
you don’t find that by simply copying
lebron james workout routine
your value your source of happiness
you know that’s discovered moving
forward through
ups and downs falling and getting back
up not once not twice but
repeatedly and it’s through those
trials and tribulations that you carve
out who you are
but if you wait for the perfect moment
you’ll never find it
which means you will never go through
this process
i often think back to my days in the
corporate world in the insurance
industry
being in a situation that i was not
thriving in and if someone sat me down
said eddie what do you want to do
what is the top of the mountain what
does success look like to you i couldn’t
answer that
but what i did know is that i loved to
create
i love to speak to write compose music
produce videos just
put out content that’s what i was
destined
to do and i knew it
but if i waited to move until i knew
exactly
what my life would look like until there
was you know this path
perfectly paved to the finish line i’d
still be there
i’d be in a a cubicle crunching numbers
in excel in a weirdly painted
beige room but
sometimes you have to move forward
trust your gut your instincts what you
love to do
embrace the idea the fact that you’ll
fall down
and you’ll fall down and you’ll get back
up but that it will
shape you and that as you go
on living your passion your purpose
thriving
in life the pieces come together
you have to trust that even when it’s
not certain because i’ll tell you what
is certain
if you do not move you will not achieve
that world will spin right around you
i read a book a few months ago called
hatching twitter
simple read it’s about the founders of
twitter jack i have all these guys with
their different
ideas and different you know notions of
what this company’s gonna be
you know it started out as i believe a
radio online radio company
and it evolved and it evolved and there
were pivots and adjustments and
alterations and they kept moving forward
and they kept growing
and there’s one point where they have a
valuation of millions and millions of
dollars
and they’re having a conversation like
what do we what is our company
is is real time news the focus are we
promoting social interaction like what
is it
how do we brand this how do we market it
what do we have on our hands
this is a company worth millions of
dollars
talk about just moving forward taking it
one step at a time
things will change they’ll evolve but
you have to give yourself an opportunity
for that to happen
imagine if they never left the garage
or whatever room they started the
company in because they didn’t know what
it would be in 2017
we wouldn’t have twitter and that
applies to everything
around us right we have this idea that
you know things were meant to be they
were destined
no things exist around us because of
risks that were taken
because people pushed forward until they
got a result
until they knew what they were meant to
do and it materialized
and that is life
so don’t be scared to take that step
don’t be
nervous to fall down
you need that the world needs that
because without it we’ll have could bes
and some days but not the existence
that we want that you deserve
that you’re capable of acquiring no
longer
is certainty the standard progress
is the standard and your life will
change
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in a limitless world
why set your sights on the obtainable
the prize within an arm’s reach why not
think bigger
our expectations are the foundation for
our accomplishments
the target you aim for is more than
likely going to be the target you hit
which means it’s quite possible to do
exactly what you set out to do and still
drastically under achieve for the sole
reason that you are worth
more you are capable of more than you
give yourself
credit for but like anything if you
don’t recognize and do something about
it
the impact will be minimal
it doesn’t matter that you’re the
fastest person in the world
if you never sprint
it’s impossible to stumble into
excellence
because to get there you need to one
understand that something greater exists
and
to understand that you are worthy of it
in anything you do it’s better to aim
high
to try and accomplish too much be bigger
than reality
larger than life and what you’ll find in
maintaining these monumental
expectations
is that you grow along with them
you realize that what was acceptable
yesterday is no longer
good enough that it was merely a
stepping stone
the things you’re capable of the life
that’s possible for you
is unfathomable to the human mind
endless opportunities are not black and
white
they’re not reassuring because they
haven’t happened yet they’re not
visible or tangible but that’s okay
just know that no matter where you are
or what you want
more exists if you’re willing to go to
another
level there is something bigger period
so take a look at the targets that
you’ve set
don’t waste time asking yourself whether
there’s something greater there
is ask yourself if you’re willing to
step
up to move outside your comfort zone
and get it
