Tom Bilyeu

And on a long enough timeline, I can beat anybody at anything.

And the weight of my life and the number of times I've told myself that and all that just comes flooding on me.

And so now I'm back in a neurochemical situation that makes me feel strong and bold and confident and lets me move forward.

Imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow.

The minute the tree appears, a shadow appears.

And the shadow is equal to the tree, right?

If it's a big tree, it's a big shadow.

So in the terms of resistance, the tree is the dream that you have.

The book you want to write, the venture you want to do, whatever.

And resistance is the shadow.

So what I want to say is resistance always comes second.

There would be no resistance if there wasn't a dream, if there wasn't a calling that was inside you.

So the good news of that is when you're feeling big resistance, that big shadow,

That shows that there's a big tree there or something.

There's a big dream because resistance always comes like Newton's third law of motion, equal and opposite reaction.

It's a reaction to an aspiration, to a book you want to write or a movie you want, whatever it is.

So don't be freaked out, I would say to anybody, by that dark cloud.

That dark shadow is an indication that the dream is for real and it's big.

You're going to make your identity one thing, dear aspiring young Jedi, and that is to tell yourself that you're the learner.

Now, once I get them obsessed with this idea of learning, because skills actually have utility, they will get better.