getting better isn't a hack or a trick or a one change that you need to make
getting better is a campaign it's a campaign it's a daily a weekly it's an
hourly fight an incessant fight that doesn't stop against weakness and
against temptation and against laziness it's a campaign of discipline the
campaign of hard work and dedication it's waking up early and going to bed
late and grinding out every second in between every single day so you want to
get better you want to self-improve stop looking for a shortcut and go find your
alarm clock and find your discipline and fling your guts and your passion and
your drive and find it you will and then and then you will find your freedom you
know what we complain about compared to what our grandparents and
great-grandparents call me but I don't know I mean it's really hard to complain
about theoretical issues compared to actual slavery compared to actual Great
Depression I love when kids are like the economy's bad I'm like you're an idiot
like do you understand the historical nature of where we live today and what's
going on again I don't want to dwell on it too much the Internet has changed
everything it is fundamentally created opportunity for everybody the problem is
people don't want to put in the work you know but if you really believe
passionately what you're doing just dis then you know keep going you know keep
pushing on keep pushing on and until you either succeed or at least you but you
know you realize that you know it's just it's just not gonna happen
and and and then if it if you don't succeed pick yourself up and and you
know try again and and ultimately you know if you you know if you're that
determined you will succeed in life and
and if you don't you'll have a have a lot of fun trying I want I want you all
to stay true to the most real most sincere most authentic parts of
yourselves I want you to ask those basic questions who do you want to be what
inspires you how do you want to give back and then I want you to take a deep
breath and trust yourselves to chart your own course and make your mark on
the world maybe it feels like you're supposed to go to law school but what
you really want to do is teach little kids maybe your parents are expecting
you to come back home after you graduate but you're feeling a pull to travel the
world I want you to listen to those thoughts I want you to act with both
your mind but also your heart and no matter what path you choose I
want you to make sure it's you choosing it and not someone else are you making
decisions based on the financial rewards are you making decisions based on how
easy the work will be I mean I remember in college you know they would give you
this book where they all the students would rate the classes and they would
rate things like how easy the class was and how you know how much do you they
like the professor and you know the first year I picked all my classes based
on it workload and I picked everything a low workload you know and pretty bored
didn't work very hard which was fine but nothing was dynamic and nothing really
excited me and I thank goodness learned that and so the second year I picked all
my classes by professor rating regardless of the workload so every
class I had I had these dynamic amazing incredible human beings passing on their
knowledge and you were excited to work hard for them you know and so again what
the question is what are the filters we were using and so if you're only chasing
the mighty dollar then you will have jobs that'll pay you a little more than
the last but are you enjoying yourself and I talked to a guy recently who was
in a he's in bad shape like he really hates his life and he's
really depressed he doesn't know what to do and so we were going through all his
old jobs you know and I said give me a job that you've loved and he hadn't
every single job he's chosen out of college he picked because of the the
money and if something offered him more somewhere else he took it you know
regardless and and and and the amazing thing is he plateaued because if you're
only chasing the result if you're only chasing the thing that makes it easy
right then eventually you will get bored or they'll get bored of you right and
you plateau in other words chasing the whole mighty dollar if that's your only
thing it eventually flattens out whereas if you're chasing the thing that excites
you the human beings to be around the work that excites you the stuff that you
know you know you you can get passionate about you know the the irony is is
you'll actually make way way more you can never perfect what we do there is no
way I've never met anyone who goes that's perfection I mean to an audience
outside of your work people can think that that's the only way they'd ever
want to see that part played or that moment done whatever but as an actor and
this isn't Mach humidity I think it's just it just goes for all art forms
really the whole point is perfection is unachievable so it's that constant
pursuit of the unobtainable which is kind of magic really you know and and
and you keep us kind of motivated to try better you know it's the bakit thing you
know fail again fail better a person's strengths are often their biggest
weaknesses and so that also means that their weaknesses can be their strengths
so me I am weak in all those ways that I listed I am
but I don't accept that I don't accept that I am what I am and that that is
what I'm doomed to be no I don't accept that I'm fighting
I'm always fighting and struggling and I'm scrapping and kicking and clawing at
those weaknesses to change them to stop them
some days I win
some days I do but each and every day I get back up and
I move forward with my fists clenched toward the battle toward the struggle
and I fight with everything I've got to overcome those weaknesses and those
shortfalls and those flaws as I strive to be just a little bit better today
than I was yesterday there is another level the only reason you keep sitting
there isn't as you feel so exhausted about where you are but life the
universe or God is just testing you because there is another level if this
is good giant jump to excellence Giants start good poor to good to excellence
there's a level where all your dreams are realized there's a level that you've
always dreamed that it is real it has not gone away but it takes that extra
burst when you think there's nothing left there's no way you've tried
everything ten million times and you keep going it's almost like God is
saying if you keep hitting this wall enough times I will see that you will
not stop that you will fill that level of determination faith and courage and
then the door opens and you get to that next level but most people don't know is
the next level is just 2 millimeters above and it's called outstanding ladies and gentlemen
outstanding what's it called what's it called what's it called outstanding
magnificent unstoppable extraordinary not excellent it's a different level
it's a level where you are not one of the best you are the best you know
what's amazing you only have to be two millimeters more than everybody else and
you get everything you get the joy the laughter the fun the family the
passion the economics the freedom of spirit it's all there what Jerry Maguire
called the quad baby all of it and it's just two millimeters above and most
excellent people give up because they're exhausted and there's some people go the
harder I hit it the more I hit it sooner or later it's going down I'm not
stopping when you actually sit down at 6:00 p.m. to study and you open that
book up instead of thinking okay how do I get this done faster so that I can go
watch some TV or play some video games no you sit down and you say oh this is a
fascinating thing here that I'm studying about life this is so much more
rewarding and has so much more value than watching TV or playing a video game
and look I watched a lot during my school years and I want
playing a lot of video games during my school years so I know how that goes
I mean those things can be exciting in the short term but there's so much value
and richness in the studying you got to connect yourself to that right it's not
like adults or just telling you to study for study's sake that's a stupid reason
you can connect inside to your own original motivations I just feel like if
you can figure out the thing that makes you tick find that thing and the thing I
would say I guess is a lot of young people I find are under such pressure
there's a kind of sense of it's all or nothing which i think is really unfair
meaning I don't know if it's the media and the way things are presented or if
it's because there's so much success that is that is celebrated in society
but there is a sense I've heard enough that I feel like I haven't thought of
this till now that it is a kind of theme that that young people feel like if they
don't know what they're born to do that there's somehow broken and I think that
it needs to be looked at differently which is that it means if you don't know
that thing it means that every door is there's the possibility that that's a
beautiful thing so I just feel like I would say don't stress yourself out in
my experience stepping up in the in developing yourself involves a lot of
great wins and thrills and euphoria but it also involves a lot of harsh looking
at yourself like really looking at yourself in the mirror and questioning
yourself so you know you want to believe I'm awesome and fuel your certainty and
go hard but I think that you also want to take very very harsh looks at
yourself that can be very painful you want to do that at times and you want to
get out into nature or into isolation or out with your friends that will
challenge you and think about you know who you are where you you know where
you're going what you become because again you're motoring along and if you
go a little bit this way you wind up over here if you're a little bit this
way you wind up up here if you're a little bit this way you wind up over
here and so you need those periods of examination to learn how to recognize
your own strengths and weaknesses this is in fact the vital part of preparation
for a big match and for anything in life we always try
to study our opponents we always try to try to study the battlefield we always
try to study all the circumstances surrounding our venture endeavor but
very often we forget to study ourself and this is very important because any
choice of a ground for battle or you know type of strategy we want to employ
depends on our recognition of our strengths and weaknesses and this is a
process of constant re-evaluation because life is changing very fast and
our opponents looking at our success studying it and trying to be to be smart
and outsmart us eventually and we can look at the history and just to find a
number of situations were the the inability to recognize strengths and
weaknesses led to an eventual disaster
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