Weldon Long

I love to see, as I mentioned, with the young guys like you, and I know you're not a baby and you're a grown-ass man. But it's coming with a new energy. Your brand has been so much fun to watch, and there's a lot of other guys out there. But you're definitely in kind of a league by yourself. Just watching the youngsters coming up. You've got the old goats like me. We're done, man.

I love to see, as I mentioned, with the young guys like you, and I know you're not a baby and you're a grown-ass man. But it's coming with a new energy. Your brand has been so much fun to watch, and there's a lot of other guys out there. But you're definitely in kind of a league by yourself. Just watching the youngsters coming up. You've got the old goats like me. We're done, man.

We're going golfing and fishing, and you guys are really, really tearing it up out there.

We're going golfing and fishing, and you guys are really, really tearing it up out there.

In the hour.

In the hour.

I saw your affirmation in there about being a billionaire. I don't know if it's happened yet, but I'm sure it will if it hasn't. I think it all starts with mindset.

I saw your affirmation in there about being a billionaire. I don't know if it's happened yet, but I'm sure it will if it hasn't. I think it all starts with mindset.

You mentioned the keynote I was doing for that financial services group this morning. It was all about the mindset. And that's what I realized after my dad died in 96 and I started this journey of reading. I remember I came across a quote from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, we attract that which we fear. And to be honest with you, when I first read that, I'm like, well, that's bullshit.

You mentioned the keynote I was doing for that financial services group this morning. It was all about the mindset. And that's what I realized after my dad died in 96 and I started this journey of reading. I remember I came across a quote from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, we attract that which we fear. And to be honest with you, when I first read that, I'm like, well, that's bullshit.

Like, why would I attract things in my life that I fear that I don't want? So I just kind of ignored it. A couple of months later, in the summer of 96, I'm reading through the Bible, just randomly grabbing some scriptures. I come across a scripture in Job. Father, that which I have feared has come upon me.

Like, why would I attract things in my life that I fear that I don't want? So I just kind of ignored it. A couple of months later, in the summer of 96, I'm reading through the Bible, just randomly grabbing some scriptures. I come across a scripture in Job. Father, that which I have feared has come upon me.

I'm like, well, that's, you know, Nietzsche was an atheist, right, and a secular kind of guy, and Job, obviously, a God-fearing guy, thousands of years apart, saying the exact same thing. I attract that which I fear, that which I have feared has come upon me. Then I was reading Man's Search for Meaning and come across a line where Viktor Frankl says that fear may come true.

I'm like, well, that's, you know, Nietzsche was an atheist, right, and a secular kind of guy, and Job, obviously, a God-fearing guy, thousands of years apart, saying the exact same thing. I attract that which I fear, that which I have feared has come upon me. Then I was reading Man's Search for Meaning and come across a line where Viktor Frankl says that fear may come true.

And so I started thinking like, wait a second, maybe, maybe just maybe all this miserable life I have, I'm attracting to me. So I sat down and wrote a list out of everything I feared the most. And it was, it was my life. Not being a father, being incarcerated, being broke, being homeless. Like everything I wrote down, that was my life. Like I have indeed. This is around 30 to 40 years old.

And so I started thinking like, wait a second, maybe, maybe just maybe all this miserable life I have, I'm attracting to me. So I sat down and wrote a list out of everything I feared the most. And it was, it was my life. Not being a father, being incarcerated, being broke, being homeless. Like everything I wrote down, that was my life. Like I have indeed. This is around 30 to 40 years old.

No, this was 32 when my dad died. Oh, I'm still in prison. I got seven years left to go at this point. Yeah. So I'm in prison and I start realizing this. So then I started reading all the classics, Think and Go Rich, that type of stuff. And I realized I got to change what's in here. And so what I realized is like this brain up here, I use a metaphor of a box, right?

No, this was 32 when my dad died. Oh, I'm still in prison. I got seven years left to go at this point. Yeah. So I'm in prison and I start realizing this. So then I started reading all the classics, Think and Go Rich, that type of stuff. And I realized I got to change what's in here. And so what I realized is like this brain up here, I use a metaphor of a box, right?

And in that box, if I have a motorcycle, all the components for a motorcycle, and I pull the parts out and put it together, it's a motorcycle. It's not something else. It's going to be the same thing it was in the box. Well, to me, the metaphor is our mind is a box. And every day, neuroscientists say that we pull 30,000 decisions out of there every day. Imagine that, 30,000.

And in that box, if I have a motorcycle, all the components for a motorcycle, and I pull the parts out and put it together, it's a motorcycle. It's not something else. It's going to be the same thing it was in the box. Well, to me, the metaphor is our mind is a box. And every day, neuroscientists say that we pull 30,000 decisions out of there every day. Imagine that, 30,000.