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Chapter 1: What is the truth about hard work and greatness?
Here's maybe the actual truth about hard work and chasing greatness. It is incredibly hard. It is incredibly hard, but it's worth it. It's worth it. It can be worth it. It does demand trade-offs. It does demand sacrifices. You absolutely have to have some dog in you. And frankly, it may not be for everyone because you will get knocked down and you have to get back up. Fall seven, rise eight.
Chapter 2: What sacrifices are necessary for achieving greatness?
This is what greatness is all about. Greatness in whatever domain you want to be. Great parenting, great business, great podcast, great person in the world, whatever it is. There will be trade-offs. There will be sacrifices. Yes, you have to have some dog in you. And maybe it's not for everyone. But living in either extreme is... is where we get sort of caught and maybe we get stuck, right?
We gotta understand the truth about what hard work really is and what chasing greatness is really all about. And so there is kind of a specific temperament that is just driven. You're hard to satisfy. You refuse to accept kind of the default settings of life. And because of that, you will not be balanced, but you can have harmony.
You can understand certain things about yourself and what you need and what you don't need. Right? Because everyone gets dealt a certain hand in life and we do not have to accept that hand. We have agency and power and responsibility. And kind of the first camp that we talked about puts yourself in sort of this victim mentality. Like things are happening to me.
I still deserve greatness, but I'm not gonna work for it. That's never gonna be how it works. And so we have to accept the fact of reality, awareness, accept, awareness, acceptance, action. If you listen to my podcast, you know that I say that on every single episode, but I think it's the most important three-step approach that we have.
We're aware, we accept these default settings, and then we move into action. Right. Well, kind of we were excuse me, we refuse to accept the default settings. We're aware of them. We're we accept the reality of the situation, but not that this is always going to be our reality. And then we move into action. Excuse me. Said the word except too many friggin times. And I got in my own words.
And again, you will not be balanced. That's not the way. But the thing is, there will be chapters in life, especially when you're young, when you're singularly focused on your craft. And that's the way it should be.
And in those moments, you're gonna look around and wonder how some people are just perfectly content, kind of living day by day, not working hard, being on a traditional nine to five or whatever the case may be and just enjoying their weekends. You might even find yourself jealous of them I certainly did when I was chasing my dream of being a baseball player, a professional wrestler.
We always worked on the weekends. There was no traditional nine to five vibe. There was like, I am focused on this thing and this season of my life is all about this. That's okay.
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Chapter 3: How can understanding your temperament impact your drive?
There will be different chapters in your life. That's a fucking vibe to know that you gave everything you had to one dream, to one focus. You blocked out everything else. You got a little bit jealous of people living this life or being able to travel or just hang out on the weekends or have nothing to do when you were grinding. That is going to be part of your life, especially when you're young.
That's a beautiful thing to say. I went all in. I got no regrets from that decision. But you are wired differently. And I think that's important to understand. No amount of meditation or yoga or self-care is gonna change that kind of internal wiring. So if you have that in you, you have that dog in you, you gotta go get it. You gotta go get it. You gotta feed that beast a little bit. But...
But here is the massive warning label that comes with that wiring. If you don't put any constraints around your drive, it will consume you. It will consume you. And if you completely neglect your relationships, your health,
and the basic hygiene of being a functioning person or adult, if you just try to white knuckle your way through every single day and refuse to ask for help and bottle up every emotion, you aren't being tough. You are slowly killing yourself.
Chapter 4: What role does personal agency play in achieving your goals?
And that is not what true, sustainable greatness is about. If you start taking pride, really pride in how worn down you are and how burnt out you are and how kind of psychologically broken you are, We have to be honest about what happens. Do not take pride in that. Those are signals, right?
Those are signals to do something about that, to change, tweak, and so you can actually show up as the best version of yourself in greatest service to the world, right? So not only are you going to be miserable if you kind of take pride in those things, but eventually your performance will suffer.
Chapter 5: Why is it important to avoid a victim mentality?
And maybe that's where we kind of lock in some people. Maybe you can ignore the burnout or, you know, being miserable kind of or being worn down or being psychologically broken. And you won't care about that until your performance starts to suffer. Then maybe we take notice because at some point the engine will blow. You're using the wrong type of fuel to get you where you want to go.
There is a sustainable fuel. There is a sustainable, durable fuel that can get you towards achieving what you want to achieve and being and excelling in that place. There is. And again, this wrong fuel, where we just kind of ignore all of these things, these basic hygiene of being a functioning adult in the world, the engine will blow. This is the wrong set of fuel.
And you won't last very long at what you're trying to build. And we know that what you're trying to build to achieve the thing you want to achieve takes longer and is harder than you ever thought imaginable. And so if you have no engine or no fuel to get there, then all you did was waste your time.
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