You Have to Keep Going When It Feels Pointless — 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
4. 0:05thinking this will be the story that I
5. 0:07will one day tell.
6. 0:09And that means the harder it is, the
7. 0:11bigger the dragon, the more epic the
8. 0:13story, and by consequence, the more epic
9. 0:16the hero.
10. 0:18And if you think about the difference
11. 0:20between winners and losers,
12. 0:23winners define themselves by what they
13. 0:25made happen,
14. 0:27and losers define themselves by what
15. 0:29happened to them.
16. 0:31And the difficult part of the lonely
17. 0:34chapter is
18. 0:36that the Rocky cutscene lasts 90 seconds
19. 0:39in the movie and lasts 5 years in
20. 0:41reality.
21. 0:42>> With no promise of it ever ending.
22. 0:45No guarantee of glory.
23. 0:48>> What's interesting about and I don't
24. 0:50again, I don't like using the word
25. 0:51psychology, but I'll say what's
26. 0:52interesting about humans is that our
27. 0:54ability to endure is very robust if we
28. 0:59know that we'll make it out. And so
29. 1:02they've done my studies where they drop
30. 1:04the mouse in and then they let it drown
31. 1:06and it drowns really fast. And then they
32. 1:09drop a a mouse in and then before it
33. 1:11gets to the point where it drowns, they
34. 1:12pick it up.
35. 1:13And then they put it back in and the
36. 1:15second time they put it in it can last
37. 1:17like 20 times longer.
38. 1:19>> the the stats is something around will
39. 1:21drown in less than an hour if it's taken
40. 1:23out, dried off, and allowed to relax,
41. 1:25it'll swim for a day.
42. 1:27>> An absurd amount different. And so if I
43. 1:30were to say, "Hey,
44. 1:31I need you to hold your breath,
45. 1:34but I don't tell you how long."
46. 1:3620 seconds in, you might be thinking
47. 1:39this is stupid. When is he going to
48. 1:40stop? Is he going to wait for me to pass
49. 1:41out? And all these stupid thoughts go
50. 1:43into your mind. But if I say, "I need
51. 1:45you to hold your breath for 3 minutes."
52. 1:50Your lungs might burn, but you can see
53. 1:52that there's this end that's coming.
54. 1:54The difficulty with personal development
55. 1:56and entrepreneurship is that you don't
56. 1:58know when the end is coming, but you
57. 2:00still need to fight like the second
58. 2:01mouse who gets out, gets right off, and
59. 2:04gets put back in.
60. 2:05And the only certainty that I can give
61. 2:07you is that it's the same thing that
62. 2:09every other mouse, every other person
63. 2:11who got through that period went
64. 2:12through. And [snorts] you won't die. And
65. 2:15if you do die, you won't care.
66. 2:17Because you'll be dead.
67. 2:20And so,
68. 2:22best case, you win. Worst case, it won't
69. 2:24matter.
70. 2:25You know, a fun frame with that is when
71. 2:27someone says, "Must be nice."
72. 2:30You can just say, "Yeah, it is."
73. 2:34Or someone says, "Man, you must have
74. 2:37exceptional genetics to have the body
75. 2:39you have, and it just happens so easily
76. 2:40for you." And you're like, "Yeah,
77. 2:43it's sweet."
78. 2:45And the thing is is that if we think if
79. 2:46we were to just say like if we lean into
80. 2:48it, right?
81. 2:50To some degree,
82. 2:51by leaning into it, you also eliminate a
83. 2:53competitor if you want to hear my my
84. 2:54ugly side.
85. 2:55Because if I just affirm the fact that
86. 2:57they think it happened overnight, or
87. 2:58that it was genetic, or whatever, makes
88. 3:01it more out of reach. Right.