if you're not willing to go in there and
face yourself I can find anything you
can live right here on surface man right
here on surface so there is an ending to
this world and there is somewhere to go
in this a judgement you're gonna get
there and you might see a chart and that
chart may tell you who the you should
have been and they get to rest your life
to think about that man I could have
lived a much better life I just would
have just suffered a little bit more if
I just would have went nuts and realized
I had so much more but fear and the 40%
and living here versus living here being
afraid it stopped me
your biggest enemy your biggest the most
important conversation you will ever
have in your life is the one you have
with yourself you wake up with it you
walk around with it
you go to bed with it eventually you're
gonna act on it but they good or bad you
have to that's what the whole thing
about this book I have it's about you it
is about you it's strictly about you
finding who you are so many people die
we live 100 years never know who they
are never know who they are
you have to look in that mirror and know
this there's so much more in here man
because I can literally right now be a
300-pound guy spraying for cockroaches
through this day if I did not look in
that mirror and say there has to be more
to this this can't be it
and then we're willing to go into it
dive deep into it and give all I have to
find it so that's what is that's what
all that's about let's say there's ten
people in this room and we're all
mediocre but I'm the best of the
mediocre people I now think I'm great
I'm great we surround ourselves around
people that make us feel great they tell
us what we want to hear the second we
put ourselves amongst the uncommon
people we don't like that feeling that
challenge and feel that of that person's
brick about three thirty more hey push
it we're going for a run we don't like
that challenge we like that person who
says hey you know I mean I don't feel
good today man and they say oh it's okay
brother I take a day off maybe we get a
pizza lost a game we like that we we
love that feeling why cuz you understand
man we're good bro we don't want that
mother who's like this hey man no bro
get your own man it's not being a punk
we don't want in their lives we don't
want that person who's constantly
challenging our weaknesses we want that
process constantly you know macness feel
nice and good and secure nurse that's
the mediocrity of life
we want to be the best amongst the
average people people wonder how do you
stay hungry all the time because after I
accomplish something I don't sit back
like a lot of guys who graduate buzz
graduate this graduate that they get
comfortable they wonder why I'm getting
weak man I don't know I lost my edge
what's going on cuz once you hit the top
of the mountain guess what happened I'm
good I'm good so you wonder why you're
falling down now because way to be top
of the mountain you got booked another
one that's mediocrity there's a lot of
people in mediocrity who have a nice
resume but they're one-timers man they
hit they hit a one time deal they busted
open got a lot of money but they're good
you're a mediocre now man what are you
getting doing today tomorrow the next
day that's where I listen to theorists I
don't listen all that bull I listened to
a mother who's like this man what's
wrong man you're tired
why are you tired because tomorrow I'm
gonna do the begin whatever it is that
made me nauseous and sick to my stomach
it made me hurt there's no ending and
that's the person I listened to that's
the person who's gained knowledge you
gain knowledge do suffering and on the
other end the suffering is a world that
very few very few have ever seen it's a
beautiful world because that's where you
find yourself you don't find yourself in
over here you find yourself on the other
end like the hundred mile race I was on
I ran for 24 hours I found myself on the
other end of that race that 19 hours
I found wow there's a whole nother world
out here that never even stopped but the
rose in your mind and that's what all
that mediocrity is about the mind has
the tactical advantage over you at all
times
at all times of your life the mind has a
tactical advantage over you why is that
it knows that you're afraid of it knows
your insecurities it knows your deep
dark lies and it starts to push you away
from that it pushes you in a direction
that is comfortable the mind controls
everything so what I realized was that
when I was growing up and I was 300
pounds and I got all fat and I got all
insecure I realized that my mind kept
taking me in this direction when things
got uncomfortable for me when I was
facing my insecurities I was facing my
fears my mind said oh no we have a
tactical advantage we just get you
separate you from this feeling this
feeling over your life's all about
feelings we want the happy feeling we
don't want that feeling of this sucks if
in that moment you can answer those
tough questions and you are now in
charge of your brain versus your brain
ruling you that's where all that stuff
comes from so the 40% rule is all of
that you get to 40% your brain says
we're done let's roll man this is trying
to get painful this is uncomfortable so
you sit down you have to figure out ways
and everybody's different that's how the
book kind of talks about like we all
have these things about you know five
steps to this and in four steps to this
it's it's not more than that that's all
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have to it's a habit so if you know that
40 percent I'm still you know I'm
feeling pain and 40 percent feeling pain
that's where the 40% will kicks in now
it starts okay I'm feeling pain my mind
saying all this to me is saying get out
of here run flee the fight-or-flight
kicks in okay we're gonna we're not good
enough and starts telling you all these
things you start to believe it because
the mind controls all this is the time
we have to get control back of your mind
it's okay let me see if I can go 45
percent and once you start giving
yourself more and more hope instead of
realizing okay their mind starts to be
okay what are you doing we're supposed
to be going right and you're going left
you start then controlling your mind
start finding more in your in yourself
and it goes from 40 percent to a lot
further than that but that's the start
of it though get to the spot where your
mind is saying stop wherever that is get
there first and then that's when that
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control yourself in that moment
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