If I Wanted to Outwork My Excuses, I'd Work 28 Hours a Week — Transcript

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1. 0:00Alex, Leila, do you think you would be
2. 0:02successful if you start in the United
3. 0:03Kingdom?
4. 0:05Leila
5. 0:06>> [sighs and gasps]
6. 0:08>> Like
7. 0:10What do you want me to say here?
8. 0:12Like what do you The question I have
9. 0:14about this question is what do you What
10. 0:15are you going to get out of it? Out of
11. 0:17my answer.
12. 0:18Let's play out both scenarios. Let's say
13. 0:19I say yes, I think I'd be successful in
14. 0:21the United Kingdom. Then you might be
15. 0:22like, well, you don't really understand
16. 0:23how hard it is here. There's tall poppy
17. 0:25syndrome. Uh you know, it's you know,
18. 0:27it's more anti-business here, blah blah
19. 0:28blah blah blah. Okay. So then you just
20. 0:30questioned my ability to work harder and
21. 0:32and and suffer and have tolerance of
22. 0:34pain. Okay, fine.
23. 0:36Um if I say
24. 0:38um
25. 0:40I don't think I would succeed in the UK,
26. 0:42then it's like, okay, good. I have an
27. 0:43excuse now to not try hard.
28. 0:46Like we're dealt the cards we're dealt.
29. 0:49And
30. 0:51like
31. 0:53you can wish for different cards,
32. 0:55but the hand that you have is the hand
33. 0:57that you have. And so you play the ones
34. 0:59you got. If you're If you're born 5'5"
35. 1:01and you want to be 7 ft, you can wish
36. 1:03for it all you want. You're going to
37. 1:04stay the same height.
38. 1:05But you can just be like, well, people
39. 1:07who are 5'5" live a lot longer than
40. 1:09people who are 7 ft tall. Like every
41. 1:11position has an advantage. And I think
42. 1:12that is like
43. 1:13that is what I will leave you with,
44. 1:15which is that
45. 1:16every position on the board,
46. 1:18whether you're the experienced person in
47. 1:20a marketplace or you're brand new, has
48. 1:22an advantage. And so if you can only see
49. 1:24the disadvantage of your position, you
50. 1:26have a losing mentality, which means you
51. 1:28need to reframe how you're thinking
52. 1:30about it. If it's hard in the UK to
53. 1:31start a business, guess what? It's hard
54. 1:33for [ __ ] your competition, too.
55. 1:36Right? Which means it's harder for them,
56. 1:37which means that you can try a little
57. 1:38harder, because at the end of the day,
58. 1:40who you are competing against is other
59. 1:42humans.
60. 1:43Like please take this in. Like you are
61. 1:45just competing against other humans. And
62. 1:48even then, you're not even competing
63. 1:49against them. You're competing against
64. 1:50you. You're competing against the couch.
65. 1:52You're competing against distraction.
66. 1:53You're competing against
67. 1:54uh conflicting goals, conflicting
68. 1:55priorities. You're competing against
69. 1:57against against notifications and and
70. 1:59and and Facebook and and all these
71. 2:02things that are popping up and
72. 2:03distracting you. Like that's what you're
73. 2:04actually competing against. If you
74. 2:06actually worked like truly worked, truly
75. 2:08focused for and I'm going to I'm going
76. 2:10to say a crazy number. If you actually
77. 2:12truly dedicated yourself to working for
78. 2:154 to 6 hours a day and I mean like put a
79. 2:17timer on and the moment you look away
80. 2:18you stop and then restart the timer for
81. 2:21truly 4 to 6 hours of work every single
82. 2:24day. And I'm saying 7 days a week.
83. 2:2628 hours a week of work. Oh my god.
84. 2:28Right?
85. 2:29You would be a further ahead than most
86. 2:31people cuz most people don't do jack
87. 2:32[ __ ] They sit in front of the computer
88. 2:34and it's just like the the little story
89. 2:36I was telling earlier which I'll I'll
90. 2:37I'll wrap with which is
91. 2:39when I did the little construction
92. 2:40remodel of my gym
93. 2:42and I had to you know jackhammer the
94. 2:44floor and then re- relay you know the
95. 2:46rubber on the flooring and all that
96. 2:47stuff and then paint it and all that
97. 2:49jazz.
98. 2:50I could I could look at the walls, I
99. 2:52could look at the floors, I could show
100. 2:54up, but like unless I did it, it didn't
101. 2:56get done.
102. 2:57And I think a lot of people are showing
103. 2:59up to work expecting the work to somehow
104. 3:02happen and expecting for life to give
105. 3:05them credit for being there. And sure,
106. 3:07showing up is half the battle, but the
107. 3:10other half is [ __ ] winning and
108. 3:11working when you're there.
109. 3:13And so I think this question of like
110. 3:15would you be successful if you were born
111. 3:16in Pakistan or India? Like I don't know
112. 3:18and how does it serve you?
113. 3:20Because if you are born in in the third
114. 3:22world or UK cuz like the person who
115. 3:24asked this question about this who's in
116. 3:25the UK, it's like well you weren't born
117. 3:27in Mongolia, bro.
118. 3:30You weren't born in in in in sub-Saharan
119. 3:33Africa.
120. 3:34So like you're you're in one of the most
121. 3:36developed countries in the world.
122. 3:38Like you already you already you're
123. 3:39already born on on on third base just
124. 3:42cuz you're in like a developed country.
125. 3:44It's a very small There's There just
126. 3:46within the UK and the US is 370 million
127. 3:49people out of 8 billion. You got a 4%
128. 3:51shot and you've already you've already
129. 3:52rolled the dice and got a one out of 25
130. 3:54chance. You already one out of 25 in
131. 3:56terms of your luck right now.
132. 3:58And if you're a guy, great, double that.
133. 4:00Now you're one out of 50.
134. 4:02Right? And so just this idea that
135. 4:05you ask the question because you want
136. 4:06the excuse for for your current
137. 4:08condition, but it changes nothing.
138. 4:10Whether I'm successful or not in
139. 4:11Pakistan, maybe if I'm in in whatever
140. 4:13country you're in, maybe I'm not
141. 4:15successful. And what does that do for
142. 4:17you?
143. 4:19It protects your ego.
144. 4:21That's what you have to be real about.
145. 4:22It protects your ego. So either you want
146. 4:24it or don't.
147. 4:28But the blame finger has to go this way.
148. 4:31Because it's the only thing you can
149. 4:32control.
150. 4:33You might have a disadvantage, and
151. 4:35there's nothing you can do about it. So
152. 4:37you do what you can, right? You do what
153. 4:39you can control.
154. 4:40And so I will finish with how I started.
155. 4:48Stand tall.
156. 4:49Don't crack. Endure.
157. 4:52You can die tomorrow.
158. 4:53Today, you do the only thing you can do.
159. 4:56You fight. You rage on.
160. 4:58You do what you came to do. You finish
161. 5:00what you started.
162. 5:01No matter how much it costs, how long it
163. 5:03takes, or how much it hurts, because you
164. 5:06said you would.
165. 5:07With that, lock in. Appreciate you guys.
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