Am I Ever Going to Make It Out of This? — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'd say one of the strongest mental
2. 0:01frames that has gotten me through my
3. 0:03hardest times is thinking this will be
4. 0:06the story that I will one day tell.
5. 0:09And that means the harder it is, the
6. 0:11bigger the dragon, the more epic the
7. 0:13story, and by consequence, the more epic
8. 0:16the hero.
9. 0:18And if you think about the difference
10. 0:20between winners and losers,
11. 0:23winners define themselves by what they
12. 0:25made happen.
13. 0:27And losers define themselves by what
14. 0:29happened to them.
15. 0:31And the difficult part of the lonely
16. 0:34chapter is
17. 0:37that the Rocky cutscene lasts 90 seconds
18. 0:39in the movie and lasts 5 years in
19. 0:41reality with no promise of it ever
20. 0:44ending.
21. 0:45No guarantee of glory.
22. 0:48What's interesting about and I don't
23. 0:50again, I don't like using the word
24. 0:51psychology, but I'll say it. What's
25. 0:52interesting about humans is that our
26. 0:54ability to endure is very robust if we
27. 0:59know that we'll make it out. And so
28. 1:02they've done my studies where they drop
29. 1:04the mouse in and then they let it drown
30. 1:06and it drowns really fast. And then they
31. 1:09drop a a mouse in and then before it
32. 1:11gets to the point where it drowns, they
33. 1:12pick it up.
34. 1:13And then they put it back in. And the
35. 1:15second time they put it in, it can last
36. 1:17like 20 times longer.
37. 1:19>> the the stats is something around will
38. 1:21drown in less than an hour. If it's
39. 1:23taken out, dried off, and allowed to
40. 1:24relax, it'll swim for a day.
41. 1:27>> An absurd amount different. And so if I
42. 1:30were to say, "Hey,
43. 1:31I need you to hold your breath,
44. 1:34but I don't tell you how long."
45. 1:3620 seconds in, you might be thinking
46. 1:39this is stupid. When is he going to
47. 1:40stop? Is he going to wait for me to pass
48. 1:41out? And all these stupid thoughts go
49. 1:43into your mind. But if I say, "I need
50. 1:45you to hold your breath for 3 minutes."
51. 1:50Your lungs might burn, but you can see
52. 1:52that there's this end that's coming.
53. 1:54The difficulty with personal development
54. 1:56and entrepreneurship is that you don't
55. 1:58know when the end is coming, but you
56. 2:00still need to fight like the second
57. 2:01mouse who gets out, gets right off, and
58. 2:04gets put back in.
59. 2:05And the only certainty that I can give
60. 2:07you is that it's the same thing that
61. 2:09every other mouse, every other person
62. 2:11who got through that period went
63. 2:12through. And you won't die. And if you
64. 2:15do die, you won't care.
65. 2:17Because you'll be dead.
66. 2:20And so
67. 2:22best case, you win. Worst case, it won't
68. 2:24matter.
69. 2:25You know, a fun frame with that is when
70. 2:27someone says, "Must be nice."
71. 2:31You can just say, "Yeah, it is."
72. 2:34Or someone says, "Man, you must have
73. 2:37exceptional genetics to have the body
74. 2:39you have, and it just happened so easily
75. 2:40for you." And you're like, "Yeah.
76. 2:43It's sweet."
77. 2:45And the thing is is that if we think if
78. 2:47we were to just say like if we lean into
79. 2:48it, right?
80. 2:50To some degree
81. 2:51by leaning into it, you also eliminate a
82. 2:53competitor, if you want to hear my my
83. 2:54ugly side. Because if I just affirm the
84. 2:57fact that they think it happened
85. 2:58overnight or that it was genetic or
86. 3:00whatever, makes it more out of reach.
87. 3:02>> Right.