Arnold Schwarzenegger
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 May
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and to do the work and I was doing it myself, stuffing the envelopes, bringing it to the post office and mailing it out and all of this kind of stuff. It was really good learning experience, how to get a business license, how to pay the taxes and how to make a deal with the IRS. And they say, what is your estimated income? And you tell them, this is what I think we make.
Okay, this is what you pay on taxes and all this stuff. So it was fantastic. And I was always saying to Frank, I said, can you imagine how easy it is in America You just go to the IRS and you say, this is the amount of money to make. And first of all, they believe you. It's not that we wanted to cheat because we had no idea.
So we just said, I think with construction set, we maybe make $2,000 a week or so. I said, but if you make more, then we'll let you know. And so they said, okay, the estimated taxes is this. And it was like the business license we got immediately. No one asked us if we have a master's degree in masonry work or something like this, like they would do in Europe. So the whole thing is just different.
So we were just always so happy that America helped us. give us the opportunities to be able to work and give us the opportunities to be useful. Because this is the key thing. Everyone always was positive here in America. No matter what we said, we would say, I would say, I'm going to win Mr. Olympian 10 times. They say, oh, that's fantastic. I mean, you really have a great goal.
In Europe, they would say, you're fucking crazy. I mean, which means that you're kind of like crazy, you think you can do anything. But I mean, here, it's always the positive attitude. And so we adopted that. And since then, I have become, maybe I was once negative, I don't know, but I became positive.
I said, that's such a great way, because in my family, everything was my father says, we want to go build those muscles. This is the new Vernon, only showing off. What are you going to do with that? Be useful, come on, do something. I mean, go in there and shovel some coal or some snow in the winter for some poor people or something like that. It was always negative.
You're never going to make it and all this stuff. And here, everything is positive. People build you up, they go to the football games with their children and they go and say, oh, you're going to make it, you're going to score today, you're going to do this and that. That was fantastic.
And even me, when I went with my kids to the soccer games, I said, hey, don't worry about it, you didn't kick a goal, but you were really good. Next time you're going to kick that goal, just don't trip over your own balls. It's just, you gotta be great. So I mean, it's just a much more positive kind of country, the way we look at things and the way people build each other up.
Yeah, but you don't want to hang out with too many entertainers anyway. That's true. That's true. I think let's just hang out with normal people. I mean, I love coming to the coach gym. These are normal people. A guy comes to me and he says, oh, yesterday I... I was like, unbelievable. I put this new roof on this guy and blah, blah, blah. I said, are you a roofer? Yeah, yeah.
I've been a roofer for seven years now. I have now these two guys, 20-year-old guys, they make $200,000 a year just because they're also now into roofing and they're helping me with the roofing. So you get ordinary people talking about ordinary things and ordinary struggles. I love that. A woman coming over, oh, I just was laid off. I was in the movie business, and now they made this deal.
Now they're making less movies. And you hear the problems that people have and how they can still fit into workouts every morning. Sometimes I'm here at 6 in the morning. Sometimes I come at 10 in the morning. I come at different times. But it's really interesting to listen to people, ordinary people. I don't like hanging out with show business people.
because sometimes they're lost, I think, with their mind and where they think they're gonna go with their careers and the hangups that they have and all of that stuff.
Well, I tell you, it doesn't surprise me that you like it because you and I, as you know, we worked out here. Yeah. And we had a great workout together. And, yes, we tried to have fun. And, I mean, you're a comedian. Yeah. So, of course, you have to do the schmooze and the funny lines and all of that stuff.
But, I mean, it was so great to see you actually working out and to have the strength and to have the energy and to do the reps and to be interested in doing the reps the full way. You know, because we all know, we talked about that, how every rep... in bodybuilding and in weight training has a flexing motion and a stretching motion.
So if you do a chin up, so coming all the way down is the stretch of the lats, but then going all the way up is the flex of the back. So there's always, the bicep is the same. When you curl up, that's the flex. When you let the weight down, that's the stretch of the bicep. And so you were fascinated with that whole principle and all this stuff and got right away into it.
So I could tell that you would be interested in it
Well, it helped me in learning about life because, like you just said, there's so many kind of similarities when it comes to the actual body and to the muscles versus your brain. I mean, you know, if you learn quickly
And hopefully one learns quickly that the more you struggle with resistance, the more weights you use, the more you go through the pain period after you do like eight reps and you can't do anymore, then you just do the forced reps, which are the most painful ones. And that really differentiates you from the guy that is going to make it to the guy that's going to lose. And so...
Then you cut to the mind and they say, well, wait a minute. Isn't it weird that the mind is exactly the same way? That the mind also needs suffering. The mind needs also struggle, setbacks, and that you have to climb back up again. That's what makes you strong. It's like Nietzsche said, that what does not kill you will make you stronger. And this is exactly what it is.
It's all about, you know, that people should look forward to the struggle because the struggle makes you tougher. And so don't shy away from that. It's part of life and it will make you grow. It's that simple. It makes the muscle grow, the more you have resistance and it will make your mind grow and the psychologically will become stronger the more you struggle.
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