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Hey, team Denasa here, welcome back to the Building

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Better Humans Project podcast. We're going to talk a

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little bit of boxing today, and not boxing in the sense

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of getting too technical with you guys, but

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lessons learned through boxing, and there's

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a little challenge for you. Everything

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that you do in life, whether you have a hobby bit,

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what you do for work, where you're interpersonal and personal

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relationships, everything is

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a life lesson because everything you

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do is normally influenced by the

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things that you've experienced and the other things that you've done

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in the past. So for me, boxing

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is like a microcosm of life. Things

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that show up inside the ring are certainly things

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that show up outside the ring. Example, if you're very emotional,

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if you react emotionally inside the ring, that can be quite

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damaging. You can get injured because

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that will be used against you, and you're probably

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reacting like that outside of the ring as well. But

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I recently saw this quote and I want

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to read it out to you because I love it, and it kind of

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ties into another quote I've heard in this other

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quote was in the ring,

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the truth will always find you, and basically

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what that means in boxing terms, is if you've

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taken shortcuts in training, then

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once you get put under pressure and you're in competition,

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you're gonna get found out because you can lie

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to anyone, but you can't lie to yourself. And

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you know that you took some shortcuts, and when the going gets tough,

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you're going to start to question yourself, did I really

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do the work? Now? That's boxing, but it's

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also the same in other areas of life. We

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often get caught winging and complaining that

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we didn't get the result, but realistically

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we didn't do the work. We don't want to

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admit that piece because that's really hard to

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look yourself in the mirror and say I didn't do the work.

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I don't actually deserve that result. On

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the surface, through our social media,

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to our friends, it looks like we're doing the work.

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I can tell you I get up at three o'clock every morning and

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go to bed at midnight, and I'm sleeping three hours a

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day, and I do that for a week. But you don't know if that's

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true. You just hear that from

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me, and if I can say confidently, you'll believe

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it's true. Now, if I'm actually going to bed at eight thirty

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nine o'clock after watching an hour or two of Netflix

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first, and I'm sleeping through until seven or eight o'clock in the morning

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at the end of that week. Can I honestly expect

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a result? Of course not. But

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I can put it out there publicly and act like I deserve

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the result, and people go, Man, you work so hard, but did

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I? You cannot lie to yourself. So

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this quote here, I love it. It says the

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Ring never lies. It doesn't

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care about your words, your reputation,

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or promises whispered in the dark. It

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only knows the truth, the truth

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of every mile run, every rounds

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farred, every sacrifice made when

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no one was watching. When the bell rings,

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there are no excuses, no place

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to hide, no shortcuts left to take.

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The Ring exposes everything. It

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reveals the hours spent grinding in silence,

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or the moments wasted on false confidence.

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It rewards those who fought through exhaustion and

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humble those who only dreamed of victory

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but never bled for it. In the Ring,

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your heart is laid bare. You

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will be tested and your preparation

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judged with ruthless honesty.

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It doesn't matter what you told yourself, what

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others believed or what you hoped would be.

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Enough has no bias, no

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sympathy. It only gives back what

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you put in. The work is either done

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or it isn't, because the ring never

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lies. I love that,

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and I've got to tell you that is life. You

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will only ever get the results that you worked for,

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and sometimes you won't even get the

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results that you work for. But here's

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the thing. If you didn't do the work, you've

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got exactly zero chance of

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getting a result. You're just relying

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on luck. So look yourself in the mirror and

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ask yourself some tough questions. Am

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I doing the work?

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