1041. Q&AF: Developing Leadership Qualities, Defense Or Offense & Aiming High Vs Being Realistic

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But they got this new shit out there now. They got chicken tenders dog. I want to hear about that either Andy. They slap. Okay. I know. No sauce. Dude. I know QT's like. Dude. Fuck. Is good. Dude. No. I've never had chicken tenders. I didn't need sauce. Yeah. People naturally want to follow. Instead of someone who's just in charge. Well, I mean, first of all, the fact that you're aware of this is a really good sign. Because most terrible leaders, they believe they're great leaders. But worst leaders on the earth believe they're the best leaders on the earth. It's no different than when you go into a meeting and you know, you need the team to perform and you say, Hey, we're not doing good enough. We got to do this and this and this. The people who are already executing at a high level feel like you're talking to them. And then the people who aren't doing shit are like, Oh, he's not talking to me. Definitely not talking to me. So the fact that you're aware of your leadership weaknesses is a great sign. And you should always be auditing your ability to be an effective leader by examining your own leadership capability style techniques. So first thing I'll tell you is like the fact that you're even considering or asking the question tells me that you have the capacity to be a great leader. All right, because most people don't do that. I think you're asking yourself a great question. Okay, if I was led by me, would I want to follow me? That's a great question to ask yourself the deep one. Yeah, for sure. And it's honest. It's a real thing. And if you can effectively answer that in a non bias way, you're going to develop as a great leader. Okay. Okay, but the question was how do I develop? Yeah. How do I look? The greatest leaders in the world understand that leadership is not about authority. It's an equally as important position on the team to the mission at hand. Okay. So they don't look at it like, well, I'm the leader. So you got to do what I say. They look at it like I'm the leader and that's a role. And these guys have other roles. And then those guys behind them have other roles. And if we're all rowing and synchronicity, we'll get where we want to go. So understanding that leadership is not a position of authority as much as it is a role on a team that has to be executed effectively to produce the outcome. Right. Your job is to not know all the answers. Your job is to be able to understand what the right answer may be, even if it doesn't come from you. This is called servant leadership. All right. My job is to help them develop. It's to help us figure out the path. And it's for me to choose the path and then help them develop into the people that can effectively move us towards the path. So that we all get the outcome that we're after. And people don't think of it like that. Bad leaders think of it as like, oh, well, I'm the leader. You got to listen what I say. And they don't even really think about anything other than that. Like that's not leadership, bro. You're just a douchebag. You know, so. There's a lot of things that come into great leaders. You know, you need to be willing to do the things that you ask your team to do. You need to be able to do them effectively. Now, if you're a great, great leader, you're going to be surrounded by people who can do the job that you ask them to do much better than you could do it. But you should still be willing to do it, right? Even if you're bad at it, even if you're bad at it in front of the whole team, you should be willing to do that job or at least do your best to do the job. You know, living the standard that you ask from your team, you know, Vince Lombardi has a very famous quote that leading by example isn't the best way to lead. It's the only way to lead. And what that means is is like if you're not living the standard, if you're not willing to hold yourself accountable to the same standards that you hold the team, nobody's going to believe anything that you say. You know, and then there's other things like you can't lie to your team. You can't tell them you're going to do shit that you're not going to do. You can't say, hey, we're going to go do these things. And when we get here, this will happen and then not follow through. And these are all things that create bad teams because the leader is ineffective. You know, I mean, dude, there's a million things, but at the end of the day, you know, leadership is not about authority. It's not about your ego. It's about accomplishing a mission. And if you could keep that intent and that understanding at the forefront of your focus, all of the other things tend to work themselves out. Okay. So instead of looking at yourself like I'm the leader, I'm the man, I'm the boss, I'm the this. You need to be looking at yourself like I am entrusted with this duty and obligation to get us where we need to go. And I may not always have the best ideas. Maybe my team could see something that I can't see. Like if you're a general and you're not willing to listen to the guys on the front line, you're going to get people killed. Right. A lot of leaders won't do that. They think they know best. They think they know everything. You know, and really, dude, it's about squash and ego. It's about understanding that the mission comes first. The team comes first. And then you investing in the team and empowering the team to accomplish that mission, whatever that might be. So, you know, it's fundamentally different than what most people think. Most people get to a job. They get put. promoted, they get a little pay raise, and then it's the first time they ever had authority in any situation in their life, and they like to flex it. And that's not what being a great leader is about. Everybody hates that kind of leader. Like you want to talk about a leader that your team run through fucking walls. That's the guy who they know and trust is trying to get us to this destination. And we're going through that wall with them. Yes. And that's the difference between good and effective leaders and people who fucking suck. It's really just about how they view the role. You know, I don't view my role as a leader in any of my companies as a superior place to anybody else, even though technically, yes, it is a in the hierarchy. It is a position of authority, but that's not how I look at it. I look at it like this. These people are betting their outcome on my ability to get us where we're trying to go. And I owe that to them to get us there. And that's how I look at it. And so I'm not saying, you know, I'm not even fucked, dude. Like leadership is also a lifelong skill. Like I don't consider myself a great leader. I think once you start thinking you're a great leader, just like in any situation, when you start to think it's you, then you get really bad at things, right? So like leadership is a lifelong journey. It's a lifelong learning process. You're going to make mistakes. You're going to fuck up and do if you're an ethical leader, you're going to learn from those mistakes because you don't want to make them again. Because when you are in a position of leadership and you make mistakes, the cost isn't just to you, it's to them, right? You could cost them income. You could cost them opportunity. You can waste their time. And you know, if you're an ethical leader, those are the things that are going to bother you. Do you know what's funny? The leadership conversation. And I grew up, I spent most of my entire life thinking that leaders, you know, we're told there's natural born leaders, we're told that some people just have a natural inclination, which I think is still true, right? For some people, right? But I think the more I start looking at it, it's truly an art form that takes investment, right? And I think, and I want you to like tell me what your thoughts on this. But I think for most leaders, when they get to that leadership position, they've invested in themselves, their education, their skills, they get the title, they stop investing in themselves. How did that work for you? As you guys started growing, you get more people in the entire. Well, I mean, bro, if you understand that you're never really a quote unquote great leader, the greatness will find you in it because you're always developing. You always want to get better. And a lot of people, they will wait to lead. There's so many people out there that have the capacity to be tremendous leaders. But they won't lead before they're given the title of leader. And that is not how it actually works. Leaders, great leaders are usually just the people who take initiative to lead. They're the people who say, okay, well, this needs to get done. And they say, okay, let's do this. Okay, and so they're the first guy that goes, that's why it's called leading. It's the first guy that goes. And if we're all standing around and there's a fucking big pile of rocks, and we got to put the rocks from over there to over there. And all we got is shovels. The first guy that gets to shovel and starts moving the rocks is going to be the guy that other people follow. Okay, and then the second guy joins in and then the third guy joins in. And then there's three guys that won't join in. You're like, hey, fuck you guys. Those guys follow off the team and everybody else just kind of goes. So like you got to be willing to take the initiative to go first in order for anybody to follow you. That just makes like it makes verbal sense. It makes logical sense. It's tactically correct. The taking initiative to just do the things that you observe need to be done is leading. And eventually people will follow you if you're willing to do that. And yeah, like, you know, people are afraid to lead because they're like, oh, they're going to make fun of me. It's like the kid in the class who asks the questions when you're in, well, that kid ends up being like the smart motherfucker to make money, right? And all the other kids that are making fun of them, they end up, they're, they're live suck. Following other leaders. Yeah, right. So like, you know, you've got to be willing to look stupid. You got to be willing to go first. You got to be willing to understand. It's not about you being a leader. It's about moving the motherfucking rocks from there to there. And that's like the simplest way that you can look at it. You know, when you look at amazing historic leadership figures over the course of time, they just identify what need to be done. And they started doing it and other people joined in, right? And then you get to accelerated leadership. You know, you move up the chain a little bit and you're like, okay, well, this and you paint this picture. This is what we're going for. This is what needs to happen. And then you start and other people follow in behind you. That's just how it works, man. So like this whole idea, you know, like when you're on a team and you're not given the, like so many people ruin their lives this way. They're on a team. They know what needs to be done. But they won't do it because they're afraid that if they do it, they're going to make a mistake or they're afraid that, you know, other people will follow them or they'll look at it and be like, man, well, you know, Andy's the leader here. Why doesn't he see this or that? Well, that's your job to go do that thing or show me that thing and take the initiative. And that's what actually like from an entrepreneur standpoint, which is most people, that's what drives your value within an organization. Someone who can look at something, observe it, handle it and usually handle it without ever having to be told. And we always talk about the two things that are needed to be successful. Well, that's probably the third one if we had a third one, right? We talk about being smart enough to not make the mistake more than once. And if you make it more than once, don't make it three times, being tough enough to go down the gauntlet without ever quitting. It doesn't matter how many times you get smashed in a face or kicked in a nuts or demoralized or beat on. You get to fuck up every single time. And then the third thing is, is if you can identify problems and you could solve problems without having to be told, those three things together will produce success in your life. It doesn't matter if you're an entrepreneur or an entrepreneur. Those things will produce performance and you will get compensated for that. So those are three character qualities that you have to invest in and develop. You know, are you smart enough to not make the same mistake twice? Are you tough enough to continue to move when it feels hopeless? And are you willing to take the initiative to solve the problems when you see the problems without having to be told to solve the problems and handle them? Those are the three things that create value inside of an organization or a team or whatever it is that you're involved in. So it's really simple. It's just you have to invest in those things. And to your question, you know, if you, you know, people tease me a lot because they'll say things like, oh man, congratulations, all the success. I'm like, dude, I'm just getting started. Okay. Now while I know that that might be a little bit of an exaggeration, like I understand we've done some things, I will always say that because I don't want that voice to infect my mindset. I don't want taking that credit to infect my ability to be effective. You see what I'm saying? Did you come to me? So I try to stay very humble with where I'm at, which keeps me hungry, which keeps me moving forward. And I try to make it the best I can about other people and not myself, you know, and sometimes we all fall victim to our own ego. And when you do, you've got to be a recognizer. You've got to be able to be like, hey man, I'm getting a little too high on my own supply there. And, but that happens when you're winning, right? And so I think it's just important to always remember, this isn't about you. It's not about having authority. It's not about you being the man. It's about what you accomplish and what you accomplish with your team and what you accomplish for your team and understanding that like when people bet on you, you have an obligation to fucking run across that line and get them where they want to go, what they're betting on. And, you know, that ultimately comes down to a character, a person with ethics, someone who puts the team before themselves, who puts the goal before anything. And that's what ends those things all combined that we're talking about or what that's the magic of leadership. It's not charisma, dude. There's plenty of leaders that, you know, quote unquote, they give a fiery speech in everybody's "Oh, man, I got natural born leader." Well, how many times has he given that speech? What would it look like the first time he gave the speech? Probably didn't look like that. Okay? That's actually an after effect of being a leader for so long. You understand? So people think that like, oh, you've got to have this and you've got to have the words. No, the actions and the repetition create the words that allow you to deliver the right messages later. So, you know, I think a lot of people just have a backwards, dude. Yeah, 100% dude. I'll be so in a hit on this real quick, because I think this is important when he talked about, you know, I don't always live up to the standard to expect from other people. And I remember we were, I know exactly where we were doing cardio one day. And it was just me and you talking about the same like topic almost. And I remember asking, I said, and like, you don't, you don't seem to have a problem holding people accountable, right? And you was like, well, that's because I have no problem holding myself accountable. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So can we, can we, can we touch on the basis? Yeah, I think that's possible to, you, you, you know, I think that's possible. You can't do that if you're not holding yourself. - Not in a real way. - Yeah. - I mean, you could boss people around and you could threaten them. And by the way, I used to do that 15 years ago, right? But if you really want people to follow you voluntarily, which is where the best teams fucking, you know, the national championship teams, the Super Bowl teams, the biggest businesses, these people believe in the vision and they believe in that person. And if you want people to believe in you as a leader, you have to, just like we talk about, leading by example, the example isn't just a standard you live. It's what happens when you don't live the standard, right? Do you correct it in yourself? Do you take accountability? Can you look your team in the eye and be like, "Man, we fucking lost and that was my fault." Yeah. Like, bro, there's a lot of times in business where we've lost because it was my fault. And I don't have a problem looking at my team and saying, "Hey, man, you know what, guys? I fucked up. That was my bad. You guys did what the fuck you were supposed to do. I fucked up and I won't make that mistake again. It's about being accountable to the team. And a lot of people won't do that because they think that it delutes, when actually it builds, you know what I mean? They think it delutes their leadership capital when in reality that's what builds leadership capital. Now you do it like a thousand times and might delute. Well, I mean, yeah, then, you know, well, I mean, look dude, but that goes into the one, that goes into you make the same mistake twice, you know? So like all of these things fit together like a puzzle. - Yeah. - Oh, that's right. - It's a lifelong journey, man. And the fact, I don't know, did he say how old he was? I ate 31. The fact that you're 31 and you're acknowledging that you have ways to go as a leader is a really good example that eventually you're gonna be a great leader, you know? So I mean, dude, look, one of the biggest things I, like people always ask like, what regrets do you have? You know what my biggest regrets are dude? Is like, I look back at when I was a bad leader and I realized that there was a lot of good people that I had, that I was leading, that I failed as a leader that at the time I thought they failed. And that bothers me. I hate that. And it's something I live with 'cause you can't go back and fix it. You can only fix it moving forward. But like, great leaders, bro, they don't, you know? It's like Michael Jordan, you know, he doesn't talk about the championships he won. He thinks about the shots he missed. And great leaders, they don't focus on how great they're doing. They focus on the fucking shit that they fucked up so they don't do it again. And, you know, a lot of people just, I think dude, I think people just haven't completely backwards. - I love it, dude. - I love it. That's real. Let's go question number two, Eddie. Guys, any question number two, Eddie, I bought the company I've worked at for the last 12 years. - That's cool. - It was, yes, pretty cool. It was exciting at first. But now I catch myself making decisions like an employee instead of an owner. I'm constantly worried about not losing what I've built instead of thinking about how to grow it. Was there a point where your mindset shifted from protecting the business to confidently growing and expanding it and what triggered that change? - No, I didn't have that because I started the business. I started from zero. So I always had the mentality of growing from the very first day. You bought something that was already going and you have a different perspective than I have. So you're gonna have to shift to the understanding that anything but offense is losing. Anything but offense is losing in business. Okay? You trying to protect your business is like going out and trying to play a football game with only the defense on the field. So you're relying on protecting and then you're relying on the points coming from you know, interceptions being run back for a touchdown. And any team that ever did that's gonna lose. So you have to understand there is no maintaining. There is no protecting. The best way to protect what you have is to continue to grow it. The minute you get into that mindset of staying where you are and protecting what you have is the minute you start to lose because everybody else has the mentality of getting better, getting better, getting better, growing, growing, growing. And if you're trying to just stay where you are, then you're moving backwards while they're moving forward. You're not maintaining. They are, you're moving backwards because you're not innovating, you're not developing, you're not growing, you're not, you know, trying to be aggressive and everybody else is. So like, you're moving back while they're moving forward. And so, you know, that comes from the place of I purchased this business versus I started the business from scratch. When you start a business from scratch, you're always on offense. And that's how your mindset is wired. So you're, there was no, no, there was no pivot for me that said, oh, now I need to go on offense. Like that, I didn't have an option. Okay, but you need to realize as someone who's moving from an entrepreneur to an entrepreneur that if you only play defense to protect with someone else's bill, you're going to lose it anyway. So you have to be on offense. It's not a choice. Any business that stops innovating, that stops trying to grow, that stops trying to be better eventually gets swallowed up by the competition. That's reality. That is the life cycle in most businesses. Most businesses, and this is why second generation business owners are far less successful than first generation. A lot of people think it's because they're just gifted the business or whatever. And there's probably something to that. You know, they didn't learn how to work. They didn't learn how to build, you know, but the reality, they're spoiled. That's what people say. But the reality isn't that they're spoiled. The reality is is they just do not understand what it took to build it. And you can't experience that unless you actually built it. So the second best thing you can do is pretend that you're at zero. Okay, you have a business at zero, no matter what it's doing right now. What are you going to do to get it to 100? What are you going to do to get it to 1000? That's where your mentality needs to be or you're going to get fucking destroyed, dude. That's the reality. Is this a common, like, I've never heard of that being a thing. I mean, it's just like a thing that like, I guess it does happen out there. Like employees, like buying the business. Have you seen that a lot? You mean it's terms of having this problem? Yeah. Or just, I mean, this scenario, this scenario usually presents itself when people in hair businesses. Gotcha. Okay, but this guy did inherit business. He just paid money for it. Got it. Okay. So you inherited quote unquote something that someone else built. So you don't understand what it took to go from zero to where you are. You just don't. All right. So it's a mentality problem. And the problem is is that most of these people that get in this position because they know the business as what it has always been, they think that that was just magically materialized, now understanding what it actually took to get it to that point. And that is the, that's the delta that people have to overcome when they buy businesses. You have a lot of people on the internet right now who are telling everybody to buy fucking businesses, buy businesses, buy businesses. Cool. You can buy all the businesses you want, but I don't mean you know how to fucking run them. That doesn't mean you know how to grow them. And by the way, just so you know, unless you can afford to pay six, seven, 800, a million bucks a year, you're not going to find an effective operator work for you. You're going to have to fucking know how to do it. That's the reality. So that's a big problem I have with a lot of people who are saying, oh, just go buy all these businesses. Well, what if you don't know how to run them? Try. You're just going to, you're going to amplify the speed at which you go broke. So you have to understand that the mentality of business is aggressive by default. If you're not aggressive and you're not pushing and you're not trying to win and you're not trying to expand, you are going to lose period. There's no maintaining. There is no maintaining. There's not a business on this motherfucking planet outside of very few exceptions like dirt, like I'll give you an example. There's a restaurant in New York City called Rouse. Everybody knows Rouse, Pasta Sauce. Okay. It's like 10 bucks. All right. The original Rouse in New York City, you cannot get into. It is the hardest restaurant in the world to get into. You can't get into it. Do you know why you can't get into it? Because all the tables that are in there are owned by New York families, meaning that there isn't a table that they actually own that they dictate who gets to sit at. So there is no way to get a reservation unless you know these people and they invite you in or they say, "Hey, you can have my table tonight." That reservation is every single night. Every single night they're open. So you can't get into it. All right. They never change the menu. They never, that's been going on for decades. That's like the only example I can possibly think of of a company that has, and by the way, it's not even a real one because then they innovated and moved outside of the realm of just the restaurant and use the restaurant to leverage for the demand of their CPG sauce. Right. Okay. So that's not even a real example, but that's the closest one I can think of. Outside of things like that, there's not a business in this earth that continues to win over and over and over again that's still around that doesn't evolve and improve and get better and take competition seriously. This is why I get so irritated with all these fucking idiots on the internet who say, "It's not about competition. If you're an entrepreneur, it's absolutely about competition. Not only is it about competition, it's the hardest fucking competition. that you will ever be in because there is never a time to take a breath. This is why I say all the time. Not everybody is wired for that kind of life. Not everybody wants to wake up every day sweating and knowing that if they fucking take the day off, bro, that the competition's going to get another step closer to them. They don't want to do that. Okay, they're not built for that. That's a different kind of pressure. It's a different kind of stress. For someone like this who's bought a business, you have to start thinking that you are at zero. You don't have shit. By the way, you don't have shit because you didn't build it. You didn't build anything. You fucking wrote a check for it. Good for you. That's cool. Now you better get your mind right about what it's going to take to actually compete. You're going to get fucking steamroll. So playing defense and protecting what you have is always a failing strategy. It's always, always, always a failing strategy. Always. I love it, man. Guys, Andy, let's get through our third and final question question number three. Andy, I recently heard someone say that success usually doesn't happen because people aim to high and fail. It happens because they aim too low and succeed. That bothered me because I think there are a lot of people myself included who have quietly lowered their expectations over the years. So how do you know if you've become realistic or if you've just slowly talked yourself out of the life you actually wanted? Aren't they the same things? Aren't those the same exact thing? Why do you think I get so irritated with people who say realistic goals, realistic goals, realistic goals? No, it's not about realistic goals because the minute you hit it, you celebrate. You never stop celebrating. You end up losing by default. Okay. So you have to understand for you to win long term, you have to have massive goals because that's the nature of achievement. You get better, you get better, you get better, you get better, you get better, you get better. Chasing this massive goal and eventually you become the kind of person that can repeat that process infinitely because you've been pursuing greatness in yourself and your abilities and your skill sets for so long. So this whole idea of setting realistic goals and then achieving them and that being the reason that people lose is a real thing. If people severely underestimate what they're actually capable of, whether it be because their parents told them shit or their teachers told them shit or they've never observed someone actually being successful in their entire life. They never came from a place where they could like see someone from their neighborhood that did the thing, but I assure you, there are millions of people out there who have way, way, way more difficult circumstances than you that have achieved far more than you are possibly even dreaming at this moment. So why the fuck not you? Most people think too small, that's their entire problem. They don't think outside what they've observed in real life, right? They don't know a person, they don't know a neighbor, they don't know a cousin, they don't know anybody who's actually done this. So they make them think, oh, I can't do that either. Or they live in a household where their fucking parents come home and they're like, you'll be lucky to do this. You'll be lucky to get to here. Dude, that's for people that cheat and lie and steal and they tell them all this shit and feel their head with this bullshit to come and say for their own shortcomings, which ends up ruining their own kids. Okay? And then you have moms who will tell you to be realistic because they don't want their kid to get hurt. Look, dude, if you want your kid to actually win, your kid's going to get fucking hurt. That's reality. That's how it works. So yeah, I agree with this 100%. Living goals that are too small creates more losers than really anything else. And it comes from a place of people not truly believing that they are capable of doing something great, which bro, every single person that's ever done anything great, they breathe like you, they bleed like you, they feel pain like you. These are not superhuman individuals. These are people who, like we said originally, refused to quit. They are consistently committed to improving and they're intelligent enough to not make the same mistakes twice. That's it. That's what they do. And yes, are there very smart people that are much smarter than you? Yeah. Okay? But that doesn't mean that you can't win too. Maybe you're not going to be Elon Musk and figure out how to catch a fucking rocket with chopsticks. Okay? But that doesn't mean that you can't become tremendously more successful than anybody else that you've ever met. Okay? But it starts with that belief you have to understand that all these people are just like you. They're exactly like you, dude. They eat food and upsets their stomach. They get sick. Okay? They get diarrhea. They shit their pants a little bit and they're like a lot of change your underwear. Right. Like all this fucking shit that happens to you happens to them. So like what the fuck? Why don't you believe in yourself enough to create greatness, dude? There's so many examples and we live in a time and age where so many people that are real are observable. If you know how to identify the difference between the real and the fake, that you should believe in yourself enough to know that you can accomplish literally anything. It is literally math. Okay? It is not magic. It's your win today. You win tomorrow. You win the next day. You win the day after that. shit all compounds just like a score would compound. How many days have you won versus how many days of you lost? It's a mathematical equation. And when you remove the magic from it and just accept it for what it is, it winning becomes really fucking easy. And if you do it long enough, it becomes automatic. It does that's something you strive to be. It's not something you aspire to be. It's who the fuck you are when you've done it long enough. Like when I start something new dude. They're at this point in my life. There's not a fucking inch of doubt inside of me that we're going to win. Now how long it takes to win or what it's going to be required to produce that outcome. That might be up for debate. Plus or minus. Yeah. But I know that it can be done. And if you don't have that belief in yourself to start, then you shouldn't start. You just shouldn't because you're going to get one or two steps down the road or any a punch in the face and you're going to say, Oh man, everybody was right. You know, and that's why I talk about the dark side energy being so valuable, especially in the beginning years, where you have a little bit of fuck you in you so that when you do stumble because you're gonna, and when you do make mistakes because you're gonna, and everybody's going to laugh at you and they will, you're able to be like, Hey, fuck you man. I'm going to fucking show you motherfuckers what the fuck I'm capable of. And you continue to go. I do not know a single successful entrepreneur that does not have the fuck you in their heart. They may pretend they don't. They may act like they don't. They may smile and be all positive all the time. But I can promise you when you get in behind closed doors and you find out what really makes them tick, they got a whole lot of fuck you inside of them. And you got to have that. You got to be willing to look at people that laugh at you and be like, Hey man, fuck you. Now you don't have to say it. But if you don't think it, you shouldn't even go. Yeah. But that limit and belief is so crazy. What's that saying about like the best ideas or the most amount of best ideas or something like that or in the graveyard in the graveyard? That's right. Because people lacked enough belief to understand that they are capable of creating greatness. Yeah. Because of their environment that they they've been surrounded by. Most of you guys are surrounded by fucking losers. Okay, that's the truth. Most people are surrounded by people who are fucking losing. I'm not saying that to like make fun of people. I'm saying that as a factual statement. You are surrounded by people who have not done anything but lost. So why the fuck would they believe in you when you haven't given them a reason to believe that anything else is even possible? And that's where the obligation comes in. That's where like when we talk about this bigger picture mission of actually changing what's going on in this country and in the world comes from. Because if people don't see someone that they know they continue to believe that look losing is the only real option that they have. Okay, so it's up to you if you truly want to fix things and you actually want to make a difference and you actually want the country to be better. Not just go online and talk about it and make content about it and talk shit. I mean, how many motherfuckers do we have that talk all this shit about America and then you look at their lives and it's like bro, you're not even living the standard that you want to see out here in the world, which is a fucking age old saying from Gandhi, right? Be the change you wish to see. And so when you understand that you're wrong and that ambition and that drive and that dream that has been placed in your heart by God is meant for you to achieve so that you can inspire other people to their own greatness and changes the fucking way you think. Okay, now you understand it's not just about you. It's about everybody that's ever known you. It's about everybody that ever will know you. It's about your kids. It's about your neighbors. It's about your community. And when you become the mother fucker that one or is winning that inspires them to do better. Okay, you may never see that. You may never have people come up to you and be like, "Hey man, you really inspired me, but I promise you that's how change works." And if we truly want to get away from these tyrants oppressing and taking our freedoms away, the only way to do it is through cultural change and personal excellence and that starts with the individual. We will never fix this country, never in a million motherfucking years. through just politics, it won't happen. It has to happen at the individual level and that starts with people understanding that they have a duty and obligation to become what it is that they know they could be and should be and wanna be, that little vision that lives inside of you that you're too afraid to tell anybody about because you're afraid to be laughed at, that's the fucking mountain you're supposed to overcome while you're on this earth. That is what you're supposed to do. And if you don't do it, you fucking failed your life. That's the truth. And you can listen to everybody and they can say, well, that's not what life's about. It's not all life's about. There's other things that life matters about but that's a big mother fucking part of it. It's like when people say, oh, well, money's not important. Oh, it's not? I never heard somebody that had more money to say it was a fucking problem. That's right. That's right. - It's a real problem. - Like, the only people that say that shit are people with no money. So you gotta realize, dude, if you're in a situation where you're surrounded by people, all they've done is lost, why the fuck are they gonna believe in you? Your job is to show them what winning looks like so that they will stop believing that and start to question their own reality and become better themselves. That's what cultural change is all about. - Yeah, bro. - Fuck, man. - Oh, brother. That was three. All right, dude, let's get out there. Let's kick some ass. See you guys this week. 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